What the panel ordered
The WCAB denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration, upholding the WCJ's order for a replacement QME panel.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings of Fact and Order issued on September 27, 2023, which found the QME report not substantial evidence and ordered a replacement QME panel.
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 QME changed his opinion without proper reasoning, undermining the reliability of his medical-legal opinions, leading the WCJ and WCAB to find the report not substantial evidence.
From the decision · page 3found the "medical opinion of the Qualified Medical Examiner (QME) Dr. Mohan Nair, is not
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
QME Dr. Nair initially opined causation of applicant's bilateral leg/knee impairment from the August 10, 2017 industrial injury.