What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration is granted; final decision after reconsideration is deferred pending further review of the merits and entire record.
Applicant seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Order issued by the WCJ on May 5, 2025, which found no compensable psychiatric injury and ordered that applicant take nothing. The WCJ Report recommended denial of the petition. The Appeals Board grants reconsideration and defers final decision pending further review.
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 no compensable psychiatric injury because the termination was a lawful, nondiscriminatory, good faith personnel action. The applicant failed to meet the burden of proof for compensability under Labor Code section 3208.3. The Appeals Board granted reconsideration to further review the merits.
From the decision · page 1Applicant, acting in pro per,1 seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Order (F&O), issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) on May 5, 2025, wherein the WCJ found in pertinent part that applicant worked for more than six (6) months, but there is no industrial injury to the psyche as the applicant failed to carry their burden of proof. The WCJ ordered that applicant take nothing.