What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration granted; Findings and Award of July 8, 2024 amended to defer issues of industrial injury to knees and shoulders pending further medical development.
Petition for reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Award of July 8, 2024, granted and decision amended to defer issues of industrial injury to knees and shoulders pending further medical development.
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's decision was amended to defer the issue of industrial injury to these additional body parts pending further development of the medical record, as the medical evidence was insufficient to establish industrial causation at this time.
From the decision · page 611. The issue of industrial injury to the cervical spine, bilateral shoulders, bilateral upper extremities, bilateral lower extremities, and knees, is deferred, with jurisdiction reserved.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.