What the panel ordered
Affirmed the WCJ's Findings and Award of December 24, 2004, finding 31% permanent disability after apportionment.
Appeals Board granted reconsideration of the December 24, 2004 WCJ Findings and Award to further study the record and applicable law, resulting in this en banc Decision After Reconsideration.
What was disputed, and how it came out
Each issue the panel decided, with the reasoning it gave. An outcome is what this panel did on this record — not a rule, and not a prediction.
The Board held that the correct method for calculating permanent disability after apportionment is to determine the overall percentage of permanent disability and then subtract the percentage of permanent disability caused by other factors or previously awarded, consistent with formula A from Fuentes and the new Labor Code sections 4663 and 4664.
From the decision · page 27 Based on our review of the relevant law, we hold that when the Workers' Compensation
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.