12/17/2020
cumulative trauma injury would not have occurred. In fact from that point of view one can very well view this injury CT injury to June of 2004 as a compensable consequence of the specific injury. ¶ Again this is not my opinion simply based on supposition but based on the absence of any medical
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09/08/2007
court said that it was well established that a psychic injury based upon work-related stress is not compensable if it is "a direct consequence of a lawful personnel decision involving a disciplinary action work evaluation job transfer demotion or termination taken in good faith by the employer."
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03/01/2019
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WCJ found good cause to reopen applicant's stipulated award for new and further disability but defened
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a determination of applicant's permanent disability pending further development of the medical record.
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The WCJ also found applicant sustained a compensable consequence injury to her
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01/19/2018
compensable consequences of an underlying injury.
Applicant Minarik was involved in a motor vehicle accident on her way back from an AME appointment for an admitted injury. She claimed he injuries sustained as a result of her MVA to be a compensable consequence of her industrial
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02/01/2014
compensable consequence of the August 5 2004 industrial injury to her right knee. The WCJ This is our Opinion and Decision After REDBUD COMMUNITY HOSPITAL and ADVENTIST HEALTH SYSTEM WEST
determined that the injury claim regarding the left knee was not barred by the statute of limitations and that
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12/01/2018
reviewed the
and he said the events
Q. Her case of psychiatry on this matter her claim is based on the
fact that it's a compensable consequence of her orthopedic injury
right
A. Correct. I'm aware of that.
Q. so if the orthopedic injury doesn't exist there would be no
psychiatric claim on this case
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09/01/2017
does have some
findings radiographically as it relates to degenerative arthritis. This
certainly was not caused by the compensable consequence. I will address
this as it relates to apportionment."
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11/01/2011
the WCJ erred in deferring the issue of the applicant's claim for a compensable consequence injury to his brain and heart for further evaluation by an AME or regular physician asserting that the WCJ failed to follow the Appeals Board's holding in McDuffie v. LACMTA 2002 67 Cal.Comp.Cases 138 en
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01/10/2019
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Gregory Grinberg
Labor Code section 4660.1 provides in pertinent part that you don’t get an increase in permanent disability for compensable consequence psyche
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09/01/2007
September 28 1992 to January 23 1993 as a forklift driver sustained industrial injury to the left foot left ankle left lower extremity and as a compensable consequence to the left knee psyche internal right ankle right knee right lower extremity right side of body hypertension and
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