What the panel ordered
Findings and Award amended to find applicant permanently totally disabled (100% permanent disability) and remanded to trial level for new award of permanent total disability.
Petition for Reconsideration filed by applicant from the Findings and Award issued October 8, 2020, challenging the permanent disability rating and amount of indemnity awarded.
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.
Applicant rebutted the scheduled rating by showing through substantial medical and vocational evidence that she is permanently totally disabled and unable to benefit from vocational rehabilitation, with medical restrictions precluding return to full-time employment.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Applicant sustained cumulative trauma injury through May 1, 2010, affecting neck, upper extremities, nervous system, and psyche.
Favours Applicant prevailed
Establishes the industrial injury period and body parts affected relevant to disability determination.