What the panel ordered
Findings and Award issued June 6, 2022, rescinded; matter remanded to WCJ for consideration of Compromise and Release and further proceedings.
Petition for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the WCJ on June 6, 2022, granted; matter remanded to WCJ to consider Compromise and Release and further proceedings.
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.
Permanent disability ratingRemandedlumbar spine · psyche · excretory system
The WCJ found 28% permanent partial disability; applicant contended it should be greater and challenged overpayment credit; the Board remanded for further consideration due to settlement.
From the decision · page 1applicant, petitions for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on June 6, 2022. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, while employed on October 12, 2013, as a registered nurse by defendant, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, permissibly self-insured for workers' compensation liability, sustained injury arising out of and in the course of her employment to her lumbar spine, psyche, and excretory system, resulting in permanent partial disability of 28%.