What the panel ordered
Findings, Award and Order rescinded and substituted; issue of whether subsequent cumulative trauma injury meets 35% permanent disability threshold deferred; all other issues deferred; matter returned to trial level for further proceedings.
Petition for reconsideration granted; original Findings, Award and Order rescinded and substituted; matter returned to trial level for further proceedings.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 issue of whether the subsequent cumulative trauma injury meets the 35 percent permanent disability threshold under section 4751 is deferred for further medical record development and trial proceedings.
From the decision · page 104. The issue of whether applicant's subsequent cumulative trauma injury meets the 35 percent permanent disability threshold under Labor Code section 4751 is deferred.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.