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This case involves a defendant's petition for reconsideration of an award for industrial injury to the applicant's hands, elbows, shoulders, neck, and psyche. The defendant argued the medical opinion relied upon by the WCJ was insubstantial due to an inaccurate medical history and that apportionment of permanent disability and the finding of psyche injury were unsupported. The Board denied reconsideration, adopting the WCJ's reasoning that the petition lacked merit. However, one Commissioner dissented, arguing the WCJ improperly disregarded portions of a medical report on apportionment and that the record regarding psychiatric injury and permanent disability needed further development.
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This case involves a defendant's petition for reconsideration of an award for industrial injury to the applicant's hands, elbows, shoulders, neck, and psyche. The defendant argued the medical opinion relied upon by the WCJ was insubstantial due to an inaccurate medical history and that apportionment of permanent disability and the finding of psyche injury were unsupported. The Board denied reconsideration, adopting the WCJ's reasoning that the petition lacked merit. However, one Commissioner dissented, arguing the WCJ improperly disregarded portions of a medical report on apportionment and that the record regarding psychiatric injury and permanent disability needed further development.
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