What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration granted; January 4, 2024 Findings and Order rescinded; claim amended to cumulative psychiatric injury; matter returned to WCJ for reassignment and further proceedings.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the WCJ Findings and Order issued January 4, 2024, which denied his psychiatric injury claim; the WCAB granted reconsideration, rescinded the F&O, amended the claim to cumulative psychiatric injury, and returned the matter to the WCJ for reassignment and further proceedings.
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold November 22, 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 WCAB found that the initial QME report was not substantial evidence due to incomplete records, but the subsequent reports supported that the psychiatric injury was predominantly caused by employment events, warranting further proceedings.
From the decision · page 1Applicant seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Order (F&O) issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) on January 4, 2024, wherein the WCJ found that applicant's psychiatric injury was not predominantly caused by actual events of employment, and the WCJ ordered that applicant take nothing by way of his injury claim.