What the panel ordered
Petition for Reconsideration denied
Petition for Reconsideration of the Findings and Orders of January 29, 2024
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.
Medical treatment / UR / IMRDefendant prevailedcervical spine · head
The WCJ found that the applicant is entitled to Spanish interpretation but not to select an interpreter outside the defendant's MPN. The Board agreed, finding no entitlement to choose an interpreter outside the MPN, and denied the petition for reconsideration.
From the decision · page 1Applicant seeks reconsideration of a workers' compensation administrative law judge's (WCJ) and Orders of January 29, 2024, wherein, as applicable to the instant Petition, it was found that applicant is not entitled to select his own interpreter outside of the defendant's medical provider network (MPN) for medical treatment appointments. In this matter, while employed on February 28, 2023, applicant sustained admitted industrial injury to the cervical spine and head.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.