09/18/2009
I do not have any authority to cite to you but in my experience compensable consequences are not new injuries they are part and parcel to the original injury. The new body part expands the nature and the scope of the injury but it is not a new distinct injury that must meet all the threshold
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07/03/2010
" compensable consequences" such as an injury during a commute for treatment treatment itself etc. it is "clearer" to me it is probably going to be industrial as far as treatment is concerned. As an example see my WC Index page 171 under " Compensable Consequence"
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05/16/2018
This is from the DIR website which seems to suggest that the exclusions are only for psyche. I interpret this to mean there is no increase for sex or sleep due to a compensable consequence for post 010113 DOIs. Only psyche has the exclusions.
Q Does SB 863 affect ratings for sleep dysfunction
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06/28/2012
have proposed an A.M.E. but I could not think of a more defense oriented physician. Is the procedure to ask the already assigned Q.M.E. to choose an evaluator to evaluate the alleged compensable consequence or write to the Medical Unit asking them to provide a panel of evaluators in the appropriate
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06/01/2021
which we adopt
and incorporate and the reasons discussed below we will deny reconsideration.
Defendant contends that Labor Code 1 section 4660.1c1 bars applicants entitlement to
psychiatric permanent disability that arose as a compensable consequence of an orthopedic injury.
We agree with the
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09/18/2009
Hi Stew
Well it sounds like the other party is wholly confused..sounds like they would believe it is possible to pull oneself up with their own boot
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01/01/2010
The short answer to your question is the case you describe does not qualify for a claim for psychiatric injury. It requires 6 months of actual work to qualify for a compensable consequence of a psychiatric injury.
If time on the books as an employee was counted toward the 6 months the limitation
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02/26/2010
I have a doctors reports that details other body parts effected from a >5 year old WC claim.
1. What are the benefit ramifications if this is accep
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05/08/2010
I'm going to agree with postscript on this one - long shot on proving this up as industrial. Indeed - was there a witness to the fall What was the Rx
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11/23/2010
automatically initiate PQMEAME process to determine compensable consequence in org claim
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