What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration denied.
Petition for reconsideration treated as such and denied by the Appeals Board panel.
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 WCJ and Appeals Board found that the applicant sustained an industrial psychological injury predominantly caused (80%) by actual events of employment, supported by medical opinion of Dr. Davis and legal standards requiring predominant causation by work events.
From the decision · page 22Based on the medical reporting and the opinions of the regularly appointed physician, Dr. Davis, the applicant's industrial injury, the aggravation of her pre-existing psychological condition, was predominantly caused, 80%, by the actual events of her employment with the defendant.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Dr. Davis's medical opinion that 80% of the applicant's psychological injury was caused by work events.