09/01/2016
compensability on both claims. Instead the AA would need a 406162 exam on the compensable consequence and must object to a treatment report. However there are no treatment reports on the CT case because was denied. 1 Does AA have right to QME panel for a compensable consequence on a denied claim 2 if
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05/20/2012
Medical treatment for compensable consequence would never be barred so long as there is substantial medical evidence that it is related to the original injury.
PD would not be barred so long as there was a timely petition to re-open and no subsequent Award closing jurisdiction.
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07/15/2014
Yeah I think I agree with LawAdvocate. The sleep dysfunction is still a " compensable" consequence and so the MVA which flows from it if proved of course should be compensable as well. And the only preclusion would be the PD from sleep dysfunction itself.
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01/01/2009
after by applicant is not a The petition for reconsideration is denied because the injury claimed an earlier industrial injury. new injury claim but an alleged compensable consequence of 2003 alleging that Applicant filed an Application for Adjudication of Claim in November while employed as "welder
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05/07/2020
husband which in turn was due to her industrial injury.
Of course that means that the predominant cause of the psychiatric compensable consequence was the industrial injury right
Now of interest here is that the psychiatric condition was NOT caused by the diagnosis of or the
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09/18/2009
If applicant suffers a new injury as a compensable consequence of a prior injury should the two DOIs be rated separately under Benson Here applicant had a low back injury which caused leg weakness. Several months after the fact leg gives way and applicant breaks their leg falling. Assuming
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12/08/2009
New and further Petition filed against the employer was dismissed by the judge on 32107 as being untimely. Defendant is now proceeding against the employer on a compensable consequence theory. My question is whether this employer would have any liability on a compensable consequence theory in
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05/08/2010
Applicant falls outside of a pharmacy after purchasing OTC medication related to her work comp injury. She has receipts for he medication. Is this a compensable consequence to the original injury LC code 3202.5 says that applicant must prove up her case by a preponderance of the evidence. Can
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12/08/2009
years after date of injury forensically related to the ortho award. The award did not mention psych and was not otherwise apparent within the five years.
The appellate body in question either the WCAB or court of appeal found that the psych treatment to be a compensable consequence and thus
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07/01/2020
impairment that is
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