What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration denied; treating physicians' medical-legal reports are admissible evidence.
Defendant seeks reconsideration of the June 10, 2025 WCAB Opinion and Order granting reconsideration of the exclusion of treating physicians' reports and their admissibility.
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold June 10, 2025.
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 WCAB found that the treating physicians' reports were admissible because defendant relinquished medical control after denying liability, allowing applicant to self-procure treatment and obtain medical-legal reports, which are authorized under the Labor Code and regulations.
From the decision · page 1Defendant seeks reconsideration of the June 10, 2025 Opinion and Order Granting Petition for Reconsideration and Decision After Reconsideration (O&O), wherein the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) found that applicant, while employed by defendant from May 1, 2001 to May 18, 2023 claims to have sustained industrial injury to her back, neck, stress, and "multiple body parts," including stroke, brain, head, face, speech, bilateral upper extremities, bilateral lower extremities, circulatory and nervous systems. We ordered, in relevant part, that the reports of treating physicians Mark Zuber, D.C., Adrienne Pasek, Psy.D., and Kasra Maasumi, M.D., are admissible in evidence, and may be submitted to properly selected Qualified and Agreed Medical Evaluators (QME/AMEs).