What the panel ordered
Findings of Fact and Award of October 28, 2019, rescinded; Compromise and Release approved
Petition for reconsideration of WCJ Findings of Fact and Award; matter resolved by Compromise and Release
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold June 12, 2014.
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 psychiatric injury arising out of employment, but the matter was resolved by a Compromise and Release settlement approved by the Board, effectively resolving the dispute without a final determination on the psychiatric injury claim.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Applicant sustained injury to right hand and gastrointestinal system on July 11, 2011, but not to psyche according to WCJ findings
Favours Defendant prevailed