What the panel ordered
The WCAB granted reconsideration, rescinded the WCJ's decision, and issued a new decision finding that applicant sustained presumptive industrial injury in the form of coccidioidomycosis (valley fever).
Applicant sought reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Order of March 3, 2023, which found no industrial injury. The WCAB granted reconsideration and rescinded the WCJ's decision.
This docket was decided more than once. Shown here is the latest released decision; we also hold June 18, 2021.
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 presumption of industrial causation under Labor Code section 3212.10 was established but not successfully rebutted by the defense, leading to a finding of industrial injury.
From the decision · page 51. the applicant, age 41 on the date of injury, while employed on 1- 26-2019 as a correctional officer, Occupational Group 490, at Delano, California, by the State of California, sustained injury arising out of and in the course of employment to the in the form of coccidioidomycosis.