What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration granted; Joint Findings and Awards of April 7, 2025 rescinded; matter returned to trial level for further proceedings.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the Joint Findings of Fact and Award issued by the WCJ on April 7, 2025, which found industrial injuries and permanent partial disability percentages; the WCJ recommended denial of the petition, but the Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded the F&A, returning the matter to the WCJ for further proceedings.
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 Appeals Board found the medical evidence insufficient to support the specific injury findings and apportionment opinions, leading to rescission of the F&A and remand for further proceedings.
From the decision · page 17In this case, we reject as unsupported by the evidence the stipulation of the parties that applicant sustained a specific injury of August 27, 2015 to the upper extremities, and a specific injury of March 5, 2017 to the lower extremities. Based on the lack of substantial medical evidence establishing that applicant sustained any specific injury and based on indications by both physicians that he sustained a cumulative injury to the upper extremities and may have sustained a cumulative injury to the lower extremities as well, we rescind the April 7, 2025 Joint Findings and Awards in their entirety for further hearing and development of the record consistent with this decision.