What the panel ordered
Findings of Fact issued February 5, 2024, rescinded; matter returned to WCJ for further proceedings
Petition for reconsideration of WCJ Findings of Fact granted; matter returned to WCJ for further proceedings on Compromise and Release
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold April 22, 2024.
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 granted reconsideration to study the issues and returned the matter to the WCJ for further proceedings on the Compromise and Release.
From the decision · page 1Defendants Enki Medical Services and Service American Indemnity Company, administered by LWP Claims Solutions, petition for reconsideration of the Findings of Fact issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on February 5, 2024. In that decision, the WCJ found that the applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of her employment to her circulatory system and other body systems resulting in her death.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
The WCJ found that the applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of her employment resulting in her death.
Favours Applicant prevailed
This finding was the subject of the petition for reconsideration.
From the decision · page 1Defendants Enki Medical Services and Service American Indemnity Company, administered by LWP Claims Solutions, petition for reconsideration of the Findings of Fact issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on February 5, 2024. In that decision, the WCJ found that the applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of her employment to her circulatory system and other body systems resulting in her death.
The parties filed a Compromise and Release on August 14, 2024.
Favours neutral
The Board returned the matter to the WCJ to consider the Compromise and Release.
From the decision · page 1We granted reconsideration to further study the factual and legal issues presented. Subsequently, the parties participated in a commissioners' settlement conference at our request. On August 14, 2024, the parties filed a Compromise and Release. In order to expedite review and approval of the Compromise and Release, we will rescind the February 5, 2024, Findings of Fact and return this matter to the trial level so that the WCJ can consider the Compromise and Release. The WCJ may conduct such further proceedings as he deems appropriate.
The rules the panel named
Authorities as the decision cited them, with how this panel applied each one.
Clemmens v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd. (1968) 26 Cal.App.2d 1
The death inference and the holding in Clemmens v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd. (1968) 26 Cal.App.2d 1 were considered in the petition for reconsideration.
Referenced by defendants in their petition for reconsideration.
From the decision · page 1Defendants contend in their petition for reconsideration that (1) the finding of industrial injury is predicated upon a misapplication of the death inference and is unsupported by the evidence; (2) the holding in Clemmens v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd. (1968) 26 Cal.App.2d 1 [33 Cal.Comp.Cases 186] is distinguishable; (3) the WCJ erroneously relied on hearsay evidence; and (4) applicant's heart failure was idiopathic and not industrial.
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