What the panel ordered
The Appeals Board granted reconsideration, rescinded the July 25, 2024 Findings and Award, and substituted new findings awarding 72 percent permanent disability with no valid apportionment, entitlement to future medical care for cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine, right shoulder, and head, and deferred attorney fees and weekly rate determination to the WCJ.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the July 25, 2024 Findings and Award, which the WCJ had issued, contesting permanent disability apportionment and future medical care entitlement. The WCJ recommended denial of reconsideration, but the Appeals Board granted reconsideration, rescinded the prior Findings and Award, and issued new findings.
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 Board concluded that the applicant's right to future medical care was not abrogated and granted entitlement to future medical care for the cervical spine, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, right shoulder, and head.
From the decision · page 1Applicant seeks reconsideration of the July 25, 2024 Findings and Award (F&A), wherein the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) found that applicant, while employed as an aide/substitute teacher on June 15, 2016, sustained industrial injury to her cervical spine, thoracic spine, lumbar spine, right shoulder, and in the form of headaches. The WCJ found in relevant part that applicant sustained permanent disability subject to nonindustrial apportionment, and that applicant was entitled to future medical care to the head/headaches, but not to the thoracic spine or bilateral knees.