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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied the employer's Petition for Reconsideration, affirming the finding of 100% disability due to psychiatric injury for Tommie Fields. The Board deferred to the Administrative Law Judge's credibility determination, finding the Applicant's testimony reliable. The employer's arguments regarding the Applicant's disability assessment and the "Good Faith Personnel Defense" were rejected, with the Board upholding the finding that the termination was not a good faith personnel action. The psychiatric injury's disability was properly apportioned between two separate work injuries.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied the employer's Petition for Reconsideration, affirming the finding of 100% disability due to psychiatric injury for Tommie Fields. The Board deferred to the Administrative Law Judge's credibility determination, finding the Applicant's testimony reliable. The employer's arguments regarding the Applicant's disability assessment and the "Good Faith Personnel Defense" were rejected, with the Board upholding the finding that the termination was not a good faith personnel action. The psychiatric injury's disability was properly apportioned between two separate work injuries.
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