What the panel ordered
The Board granted reconsideration, rescinded the November 22, 2023 Findings and Order, and substituted new findings that California has jurisdiction, the date of injury was November 16, 2018, and compensation is not barred by the statute of limitations.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the Findings and Order issued on November 22, 2023, which denied jurisdiction and barred compensation. The WCJ recommended denial of reconsideration, but the Appeals Board granted reconsideration, rescinded the prior decision, and issued a new decision finding jurisdiction and no statute of limitations bar.
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 found that the applicant's California contract of hire conferred jurisdiction under section 3600.5(a), and that the date of injury was November 16, 2018, based on the first medical advice from QME Dr. Hatch, making the claim timely under section 5405.
From the decision · page 171. the applicant, while employed during the period June 1, 1986 to July 13, 2003, as a Professional Baseball Player, occupational group 590, at various locations in and out of California, by the Tampa Bay Rays and the Colorado Rockies, claims to have sustained injury arising out of and in the course of employment to his head, neck, back, arms, shoulders, elbows, wrist, hands, fingers, legs, hips, knees, ankle, feet, toes, and in the form of neurological and internal injuries.