What the panel ordered
The WCAB rescinded the Findings of Fact and Orders issued on September 17, 2020, and approved the Compromise and Release filed May 24, 2021, awarding settlement as specified.
Defendant Zurich American Insurance Company petitioned for reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings of Fact and Orders issued on September 17, 2020, which found applicant entitled to ongoing in-patient supportive care. The WCJ recommended denial of the petition. The parties later resolved the claims by compromise and release, which was filed May 24, 2021.
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold May 14, 2021.
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 WCJ found entitlement to ongoing in-patient supportive care, but the parties resolved the claim by compromise and release, which the WCAB approved as adequate and in the applicant's best interest.
From the decision · page 1I. Defendant, Zurich American Insurance Company, petitions for reconsideration of the Findings of Fact and Orders issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on September 17, 2020. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, is in need of ongoing in-patient supportive care to cure and relieve him from the effects of his industrial injury. Defendant contends in its petition for reconsideration that the WCJ erred in finding that applicant is entitled in-patient supportive care. Applicant filed an answer to the petition for reconsideration, contending that it should be denied. The WCJ issued a report in which he recommended that defendant's petition for reconsideration be denied. Subsequently, at our request the parties participated in a commissioners' settlement conference and agreed to resolve applicant's claims by compromise and release. Applicant's adult daughter, Andrea the applicant, was appointed Guardian ad Litem and Trustee (GAL) on May 14, 2021. The GAL signed the Compromise and Release, in behalf of applicant. The Compromise and Release was filed on May 24, 2021.