What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration granted; Findings and Award of October 24, 2025 rescinded; matter returned to WCJ for further proceedings.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the WCJ on October 24, 2025, which denied permanent disability for COVID-19 injury; the WCJ recommended denial of reconsideration; the Appeals Board granted reconsideration and returned the matter for further proceedings.
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 Appeals Board found the medical evidence insufficient and not substantial to deny permanent disability; the matter was returned for further development and proceedings.
From the decision · page 7disability; 2. Need for further medical treatment; and 3. Attorney fees. (Amended Minutes of Hearing and Summary of Evidence (MOH/SOE), August 25, 2025 trial, p. 2.) The parties stipulated that during the period of January 1, 2023 through February 23, 2024, applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of employment to the head and in the form of COVID-19.