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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) denied reconsideration of an Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) decision. The WCAB adopted the ALJ's report and incorporated its reasoning, giving significant weight to the ALJ's credibility findings. However, the WCAB explicitly rejected the ALJ's recommendation to find no industrial psychiatric injury resulting in a sleep disorder, stating that this issue could be decided in further proceedings. Therefore, the petition for reconsideration was denied, with the possibility of further trial-level proceedings on the psychiatric injury claim.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) denied reconsideration of an Administrative Law Judge's (ALJ) decision. The WCAB adopted the ALJ's report and incorporated its reasoning, giving significant weight to the ALJ's credibility findings. However, the WCAB explicitly rejected the ALJ's recommendation to find no industrial psychiatric injury resulting in a sleep disorder, stating that this issue could be decided in further proceedings. Therefore, the petition for reconsideration was denied, with the possibility of further trial-level proceedings on the psychiatric injury claim.
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