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This case involves CIGA's appeal of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision finding applicant sustained industrial injuries to her head, psychiatric, cervical spine, lumbar spine, and heart, resulting in 98% permanent disability. CIGA argued for greater apportionment of disability based on medical opinions and questioned the rating instructions for headaches and GI injury. The Board granted reconsideration to address a procedural error concerning the GI injury, deferring that issue for further proceedings. Otherwise, the Board affirmed the original findings, finding CIGA's arguments regarding apportionment and rating instructions lacked merit, and specifically rejecting CIGA's attempt to impose apportionment for psychiatric injury based on orthopedic opinions.
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This case involves CIGA's appeal of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision finding applicant sustained industrial injuries to her head, psychiatric, cervical spine, lumbar spine, and heart, resulting in 98% permanent disability. CIGA argued for greater apportionment of disability based on medical opinions and questioned the rating instructions for headaches and GI injury. The Board granted reconsideration to address a procedural error concerning the GI injury, deferring that issue for further proceedings. Otherwise, the Board affirmed the original findings, finding CIGA's arguments regarding apportionment and rating instructions lacked merit, and specifically rejecting CIGA's attempt to impose apportionment for psychiatric injury based on orthopedic opinions.
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