What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration granted in part, Findings of Fact 2 and 5 vacated, matter remanded for further development on temporary disability and attorney fees; other findings affirmed
Petition for reconsideration filed by defendant challenging findings on temporary disability and internal medicine consultation authorization; WCJ report recommended granting reconsideration in part and affirming in part
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 court found substantial evidence supporting the need for an internal medicine consultation to evaluate diabetes causation and treatment related to the industrial injury and denied reconsideration on this issue.
From the decision · page 9It is well settled that a defendant is liable for treatment for a nonindustrial condition if it is reasonable and necessary to aid in the treatment of an injured workers' injuries. If there is a dispute regarding whether applicant's diabetic condition was aggravated or accelerated by the industrial injury then the treating physician would be allowed at defendant's expense to refer the applicant to a secondary treating physician in internal medicine for a medical-legal evaluation on the issue of causation of that body part.