What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied; WCJ's Findings and Order affirmed that applicant did not sustain a psychiatric injury arising out of and in the course of employment and ordered applicant to take nothing.
Applicant filed a petition for reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Order issued April 9, 2025, which was transmitted to the Appeals Board on April 25, 2025. The Appeals Board acted on the petition within the 60-day statutory period, issuing this decision on June 24, 2025.
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 objective evidence of harassment or bullying constituting actual events of employment causing the psychiatric injury. The WCJ's credibility determinations were given great weight and not disturbed. The Appeals Board adopted the WCJ's findings and denied the petition.
From the decision · page 1Applicant seeks reconsideration of the Findings and Order and Award (F&O), issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) on April 9, 2025, wherein the WCJ found in pertinent part that applicant did not sustain injury arising out of and in the course of employment to her psyche while employed during the period November 7, 2023, through January 26, 2024, as an Occupational Therapy Assistant. The WCJ ordered that applicant take nothing.