What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied; WCJ's Findings and Award and Order affirmed.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Award and Order of December 29, 2025, which found applicant sustained industrial injury in the form of kidney cancer causing compensable permanent disability of 22%.
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.
Medical evidence showed applicant's kidney cancer is a progressive, insidious disease with potential for recurrence, justifying extension of jurisdiction beyond the 5-year statute of limitations.
From the decision · page 5Doctor Fishman also stated his opinion that applicant's cancer was a "insidious, progressive disease" warranting the extension of the Board's jurisdiction beyond the 5-year statute of limitations set forth in Labor Code § 5410 pursuant to General Foundry Service v. WCAB (Jackson), (1986) 42 C3d 331. He states:
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.