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This case involves an applicant seeking reconsideration of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision. The Board denied the applicant's petition, upholding the finding of a psychiatric industrial injury resulting from a 1996 bank robbery. The applicant contended the WCJ erred by not finding a non-psychiatric physical injury, specifically fibromyalgia, despite evidence suggesting it. However, the Board agreed with the WCJ that the medical evidence, particularly from Drs. Gillis and Bluestone, failed to objectively substantiate an industrially related fibromyalgia diagnosis.
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This case involves an applicant seeking reconsideration of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision. The Board denied the applicant's petition, upholding the finding of a psychiatric industrial injury resulting from a 1996 bank robbery. The applicant contended the WCJ erred by not finding a non-psychiatric physical injury, specifically fibromyalgia, despite evidence suggesting it. However, the Board agreed with the WCJ that the medical evidence, particularly from Drs. Gillis and Bluestone, failed to objectively substantiate an industrially related fibromyalgia diagnosis.
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