What the panel ordered
Findings of Fact and Order issued June 29, 2021, rescinded; matter remanded to WCJ to consider Compromise and Release and for further proceedings as appropriate.
Petition for reconsideration filed by defendant Church Mutual Insurance Company challenging compensability of psychiatric injury; WCJ decision issued June 29, 2021; WCAB granted reconsideration and remanded for consideration of Compromise and Release filed January 27, 2022.
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The WCJ found the applicant sustained a compensable psychiatric injury, but the WCAB rescinded that decision and remanded for consideration of a Compromise and Release, without ruling on the merits of compensability.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Applicant sustained injury to her psyche arising out of and in the course of employment during a cumulative period ending September 23, 2019.
Favours Applicant prevailed
This fact was the basis for the WCJ's finding of compensability, which was challenged by defendant and reconsidered by the WCAB.