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.
WCJ found no compensable psychiatric injury; WCAB granted reconsideration and deferred final decision on merits pending sanctions resolution
From the decision · page 1Applicant seeks reconsideration of the Findings & Award (“F&A”) issued on June 20, 2025 by the workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ), wherein the WCJ found in pertinent part that applicant did not sustain a psychiatric injury arising out of and in the course of employment (“AOE/COE”).
From the decision · page 7Here, although it seems apparent that the citations in question fall afoul of WCAB Rule 10421, Business and Professions Code section 6068, and Rule 3.3 of the California Rules of Professional Conduct, we are left in the dark as to motive and method – in other words, how such citations were included in the Petition in the first place, and why.
The facts that decided it
What the panel treated as outcome-determinative, and which side it favoured.