What the panel ordered
August 21, 2020 Findings and Order rescinded and substituted; matter returned to trial level for further proceedings and decision by WCJ.
Petition for Removal filed by defendant regarding August 21, 2020 Findings and Order by WCJ; decision after reconsideration issued rescinding and substituting prior Findings and Order and returning matter 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.
AOE/COERemandedpsyche
The compensability of the psychiatric injury could not be determined on the available record and requires further development; the matter is returned to the trial level for further proceedings.
From the decision · page 3FINDINGS OF FACT (1) the applicant, while employed on February 13, 2019, in Livermore, California, as a firefighter, occupational group number 490, by the Livermore- Pleasanton Fire Department, permissibly self-insured for workers' compensation, its claims administered by Innovative Claims Solutions, Incorporated, claims to have sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of employment to his psyche. (2) The compensability of said injury cannot be determined by means of the available evidentiary record, and that record requires further development, consistent with the opinion on decision herein. (3) All other issues must be deferred.