What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration granted; WCJ's decision amended to defer apportionment issue until permanent disability is determined.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Award of January 24, 2024, which found industrial injury to irritable bowel syndrome but deferred permanent disability and apportionment issues.
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.
ApportionmentDeferredirritable bowel syndrome
The Board found the apportionment determination premature because permanent disability had not yet been determined, so the issue was deferred.
From the decision · page 1We will grant reconsideration and amend the WCJ's decision to defer the issue of apportionment, since any findings regarding apportionment are premature prior to any findings regarding the permanent impairment to be apportioned. Labor Code section 4663 states, "A physician shall make an apportionment determination by finding what approximate percentage of the permanent disability was caused by the direct result of injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment and what approximate percentage of the permanent disability was