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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded the initial Findings and Award. The Board found the WCJ's determination of a cumulative trauma psychiatric injury due to a sudden and extraordinary event lacked adequate legal justification. Furthermore, the medical evidence presented was deemed insufficient to support the finding of continuing temporary disability. The case is returned to the WCJ for further proceedings to address these deficiencies.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded the initial Findings and Award. The Board found the WCJ's determination of a cumulative trauma psychiatric injury due to a sudden and extraordinary event lacked adequate legal justification. Furthermore, the medical evidence presented was deemed insufficient to support the finding of continuing temporary disability. The case is returned to the WCJ for further proceedings to address these deficiencies.
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