What the panel ordered
The April 12, 2019 Findings and Award is rescinded and substituted with new Findings of Fact including a date of injury of March 20, 2014, permanent and stationary date of March 20, 2014, and deferral of permanent disability, apportionment, attorney fees, and other issues.
Decision After Reconsideration following a Notice of Intention to amend prior decisions and Findings and Award dated April 12, 2019, with issues deferred for further proceedings.
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 Board found the date of injury to be March 20, 2014, and that the impairment must be assessed under the AMA Guides, 5th Edition, and rated pursuant to the 2005 PDRS based on that date.
From the decision · page 261. The date of injury pursuant to Labor Code section 5412 was March 20, 2014. 2. Based on the date of injury under section 5412, section 4660.1 requires that
The Board found that the permanent and stationary date was March 20, 2014, based on medical opinion that the retroactive 1986 date was speculative and the 2014 evaluation was the first reasonable medical probability date.