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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded the administrative law judge's decision, finding that the medical evidence regarding the applicant's psychiatric injury was unclear. The Board remanded the case for further development of the record to determine if industrial factors were the predominant cause of the applicant's psychiatric injury. The initial decision had denied the applicant's petition to reopen for new and further disability, including psychiatric injury.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded the administrative law judge's decision, finding that the medical evidence regarding the applicant's psychiatric injury was unclear. The Board remanded the case for further development of the record to determine if industrial factors were the predominant cause of the applicant's psychiatric injury. The initial decision had denied the applicant's petition to reopen for new and further disability, including psychiatric injury.
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