What the panel ordered
Amended Findings and Award of May 24, 2021, rescinded; matter returned to WCJ for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
Petition for reconsideration of the Amended Findings and Award issued by the WCJ on May 24, 2021, granted for further study and settlement conference; matter returned to WCJ for consideration of Compromise and Release.
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.
Permanent disability ratingDeferredpsyche · lumbar spine · hypertension · coronary disease · sexual dysfunction · diabetes
The WCJ's permanent disability rating was challenged but the matter was not decided on the merits; instead, the case was returned to the WCJ for further proceedings on the Compromise and Release.
From the decision · page 1applicant petitions for reconsideration of the Amended Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on May 24, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, while employed during the period of January 1, 2006, through February 9, 2012, by defendant, State Compensation Insurance Fund, sustained injury arising out of and in the course of the employment to his psyche and lumbar spine and consisting of hypertension, coronary disease, sexual dysfunction and diabetes, resulting in need for medical treatment and permanent partial disability of 65%.