What the panel ordered
Petition for reconsideration granted in part; Findings and Award amended to delete temporary disability and medical treatment award; other findings affirmed.
Defendant sought reconsideration of the WCJ's Findings and Award of June 22, 2021, challenging findings on medical treatment, temporary disability, injury to specific body parts, CRPS diagnosis, and post-termination defense applicability.
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.
Substantial medical evidence, including the QME report of Dr. Zenia E. Cortes, supports the finding of industrial injury including CRPS type I. The post-termination defense does not apply because the injury was reported before notice of termination.
From the decision · page 1Defendant seeks reconsideration of a workers' compensation administrative law judge's (WCJ) Findings and Award of June 22, 2021, wherein it was found that, while employed in an unspecified position on January 24, 2020, applicant sustained industrial injury to the left elbow, left forearm, left wrist, left hand and fingers, and in the form of complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS) in the left upper extremity. It was found that applicant's injury caused an unspecified period of temporary disability which was continuing, and the need for further medical treatment to the left upper extremity. In finding industrial injury, it was also found that that the bar for claims made after notice of termination codified at Labor Code section 3600(a)(10) was not applicable to this case.