What the panel ordered
Reconsideration granted, July 1, 2024 Findings and Award rescinded, matter returned for reassignment to a new WCJ for further proceedings and decision.
Applicant sought reconsideration of the July 1, 2024 Findings and Award denying industrial psychiatric injury; WCAB granted reconsideration, rescinded the decision, and remanded for trial de novo before a new WCJ.
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 denied the claim based on credibility and a finding that the diagnosis was not a psychiatric category, but the WCAB found the WCJ improperly substituted her own opinion for that of the QME and failed to analyze the substantiality of the QME's opinion. The WCAB rejected the WCJ's credibility determination and remanded for a new trial.
From the decision · page 6Based on our review of the record in this matter, we do not agree with the WCJ's analysis
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.