What the panel ordered
The Appeals Board granted reconsideration, rescinded the prior en banc decision of January 24, 2007, and affirmed the WCJ's Findings and Award of October 23, 2006, applying the 2005 Schedule for Rating Permanent Disabilities.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the en banc decision issued by the Appeals Board on January 24, 2007, which had reversed the WCJ's Findings and Award and applied the 1997 Schedule for Rating Permanent Disabilities.
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 Appeals Board held that the 2005 Schedule applies unless a pre-2005 comprehensive medical-legal report or a pre-2005 treating physician report indicates the existence of permanent disability, reversing the prior en banc decision that had applied the 1997 Schedule regardless of indication of permanent disability.
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The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.