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This case concerns a petition for reconsideration filed by the defendants, Air Resources Board and State Compensation Insurance Fund, following a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) decision that awarded benefits to Timothy Blakeley. The defendants argued the administrative law judge erred in determining Blakeley's psychiatric injury was not primarily caused by lawful personnel actions and that the causation threshold was misapplied. The WCAB denied the petition, adopting the WCJ's report which found the defendants failed to demonstrate the personnel actions were in good faith and that the applicant's injury was predominantly work-related. The WCAB gave significant weight to the WCJ's credibility determination of the applicant's testimony.
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This case concerns a petition for reconsideration filed by the defendants, Air Resources Board and State Compensation Insurance Fund, following a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) decision that awarded benefits to Timothy Blakeley. The defendants argued the administrative law judge erred in determining Blakeley's psychiatric injury was not primarily caused by lawful personnel actions and that the causation threshold was misapplied. The WCAB denied the petition, adopting the WCJ's report which found the defendants failed to demonstrate the personnel actions were in good faith and that the applicant's injury was predominantly work-related. The WCAB gave significant weight to the WCJ's credibility determination of the applicant's testimony.
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