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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board rescinded a prior award of 100% permanent disability. The Board found insufficient evidence for injury to the applicant's neck and ordered apportionment of psychiatric disability to non-industrial factors, as suggested by one Agreed Medical Examiner. Furthermore, the record requires development to properly rate the applicant's lumbar spine and headache-related permanent disability under the 1997 PDRS, particularly regarding pre-injury capacity. The case is returned for further proceedings and a new decision by the WCJ.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board rescinded a prior award of 100% permanent disability. The Board found insufficient evidence for injury to the applicant's neck and ordered apportionment of psychiatric disability to non-industrial factors, as suggested by one Agreed Medical Examiner. Furthermore, the record requires development to properly rate the applicant's lumbar spine and headache-related permanent disability under the 1997 PDRS, particularly regarding pre-injury capacity. The case is returned for further proceedings and a new decision by the WCJ.
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