01/01/2016
SDO 0259029
OPINION AND ORDER DENYING
PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION
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Defendant.
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Defendant seeks reconsideration of our Decision after Reconsideration of October 9 2015
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wherein we found that "applicant sustained a left shoulder condition as a compensable consequence of
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one or
Category: Panel
09/01/2016
the WCJ was within his authority to rely on the opinion of PTP Dr. Brose that applicant
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sustained a right shoulder injury as a compensable consequence of using a cane for his industrial lower
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back injury and not on the reporting of Qualified Medical Examiner Suresh Mahawar M.D. "The WCJ
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Category: Panel
12/17/2020
656.2451a.fn2 Claimant seeks judicial review after the Worker's Compensation Board board ruled that he had failed to meet his burden to show that his compensable injury was a material cause of his current need for treatment. In reaching its decision the board reasoned that the word "material" in
Category: Cases
06/03/2014
A New York appellate court overturned a 500 sanction against a claimant's attorney for pursuing a consequential injury claim finding the claim was not frivolous although the court upheld the finding that the injury was not a consequence of the claimant's prior compensable accident.
Case
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04/13/2009
that the administrative law judge erred in concluding that the injury was a compensable superadded injury."
The court defined a superadded injury as an injury that "generally arises as a natural consequence of or directly from the original event and is not the result of a new event or accident
Category: News
10/01/2019
Board en banc
causation was discussed as follows in relevant part
Causation
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of an injury may be either direct or as a
compensable
of a prior injury. More precisely an injury may be directly
caused by the employment. Alternatively u subsequent-injury is a
compensable consequence of the
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12/01/2019
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Mart co' 1971 36 Cal'comp'cases 12 13-14 Appeals Board en banc.
Moreover in enforcing a
general award of further medical treatment the Appeals
Board may require a defendant to provide
treatment for a condition that is a compensable consequence
of the industrial injury even if that
Category: Panel
12/01/2009
Schedule applied to determine the extent of permanent disability for all of applicant's injured body parts including her left shoulder condition that developed in June 2004 as a compensable consequence of the initial August 2001 injury. Defendant ostensibly contends that the injury caused less than 81
Category: Panel
05/01/2014
compensable consequence injury to her back neck and spine on October 18 2010. We determined that applicant failed to meet her burden to establish that her claimed cumulative trauma injury arose out of and occurred in the course of her employment and that the subsequent injury which occurred en route to a
Category: Panel
04/19/2019
Oregons workers compensation advisory committee will discuss draft legislative language that would create a presumption that acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder are compensable for cops firefighters and related positions.
The Management-Labor Advisory Committee is
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