What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration granted; WCJ's decision amended to find only a specific industrial injury on November 21, 2020, deleting any reference to cumulative injury.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Award of September 28, 2022, which found industrial injury to applicant's cervical spine, shoulders, left arm, and elbows.
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold September 12, 2022.
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 erred in finding a cumulative injury contrary to the unrebutted medical opinion that the applicant sustained a specific injury on November 21, 2020. The Board granted reconsideration and amended the decision to find only a specific injury.
From the decision · page 1Defendant seeks reconsideration of a workers' compensation administrative law judge's (WCJ) Findings and Award of September 28, 2022, wherein it was found that while "employed on November 21, 2020 and/or during the period August 2020 through November 21, 2020, as a motorcycle mechanic," applicant sustained industrial injury to his cervical spine, shoulders, left arm, and elbows.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.
Applicant sustained a specific industrial injury on November 21, 2020, as supported by unrebutted medical opinion.
Favours Applicant prevailed
This fact led the Board to grant reconsideration and amend the WCJ's decision to delete any reference to cumulative injury and find only a specific injury.
From the decision · page 4The unrebutted medical opinion in this case was that applicant sustained industrial injury
What the panel did with the medical opinions
The role the physician served, and the weight the opinion carried. Physicians are named here as the decision names them; we do not score them.
Found cervical spine, bilateral shoulders and bilateral elbows related to the claimed industrial injury on November 21, 2020, supporting industrial causation.
Dr. Segil's unrebutted medical opinion supported a specific industrial injury on November 21, 2020, which the WCJ erred in disregarding.
From the decision · page 2Applicant was then evaluated by panel qualified medical evaluator Clive M. Segil, M.D. on July 29, 2021. Applicant explained his injury to Dr. Segil as follows:
The rules the panel named
Authorities as the decision cited them, with how this panel applied each one.
Labor Code section 3208.1
Labor Code section 3208.1 defining specific and cumulative injury
The Board applied the statutory definitions to distinguish specific injury from cumulative injury in this case.
From the decision · page 2Labor Code section 3208.1 states in pertinent part:
What proof carried it
The evidence the panel weighed, by kind.
Unrebutted medical opinion of Dr. Segil supporting specific injury
From the decision · page 4The unrebutted medical opinion in this case was that applicant sustained industrial injury
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