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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded a prior award, finding that Labor Code section 4656(c)(1) limits temporary disability indemnity to 104 compensable weeks within a two-year period. The Board determined that since the applicant sustained two injuries to the same body part less than two weeks apart, and temporary disability began after the second injury, the two-year limitation runs concurrently for both, not consecutively. Therefore, the applicant is not entitled to double the maximum temporary disability period.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded a prior award, finding that Labor Code section 4656(c)(1) limits temporary disability indemnity to 104 compensable weeks within a two-year period. The Board determined that since the applicant sustained two injuries to the same body part less than two weeks apart, and temporary disability began after the second injury, the two-year limitation runs concurrently for both, not consecutively. Therefore, the applicant is not entitled to double the maximum temporary disability period.
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