What the panel ordered
Findings and Award rescinded and substituted; date of injury found to be August 5, 1999; 1997 PDRS applies; temporary total disability indemnity for August 5, 1999 to May 2, 2001 denied; permanent disability, apportionment, life pension, COLA, and attorney fees deferred; City of Los Angeles liable for reasonable and necessary self-procured medical treatment and medical-legal costs; jurisdiction reserved for disputes
Petition for Reconsideration granted; prior Findings and Award rescinded and substituted
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.
Applicant had knowledge of his Hepatitis C injury in 1997 or 1998 but did not have compensable disability until August 5, 1999, making that the date of injury under section 5412.
From the decision · page 92. Applicant's date of injury under Labor Code section 5412 is August 5, 1999.