What the panel ordered
Findings and Award issued on December 2, 2021, rescinded; Compromise and Release filed June 14, 2022, approved
Petition for reconsideration of Findings and Award issued by WCJ on December 2, 2021, granted for further study; parties later agreed to 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 ratingMixedheart and circulatory system
The WCJ found 69% permanent partial disability, applicant contended 83%, but parties settled by compromise and release.
From the decision · page 1I. applicant, petitioned for reconsideration of the Findings and Award issued by the workers' compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) in this matter on December 2, 2021. In that decision, the WCJ found that applicant, sustained injury to his heart and circulatory system arising out of and in the course of his employment as a correctional sergeant during the period June 1987 through June 17, 2016, by defendant, County of Monterey, then permissibly self-insured for workers' compensation liability. The WCJ also found that the injury caused need of further medical treatment and permanent partial disability of 69%. Applicant contends in his petition for reconsideration that the WCJ erred in not finding that the injury caused permanent partial disability of 83%. Defendant filed an answer contending that the petition for reconsideration should be denied. The WCJ issued a report in which she recommended that the petition for reconsideration be denied. Subsequently, at our request the parties participated in a commissioners' settlement conference and agreed to resolve this matter by compromise and release.