Applicant’s Impairments Added Rather Than Using Combined Values Chart: Cal. Comp. Cases May Advanced Postings (4/28/2015)

Here’s the second batch of advanced postings for the May 2015 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.

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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (aka Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, LAMTA), PSI, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Armand La Count, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance

Permanent Disability—Rating—Permanent Total Disability—WCAB, affirming WCJ, held that applicant incurred permanent total disability as result of admitted industrial injury to his neck, back, left shoulder, left wrist, right hip, psyche, gastrointestinal system, and in forms of diabetes, hypertension, and sleep disorder, when WCAB found that…

Michael Briggs, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Steve Austin's Motor Home Safari, State Compensation Insurance Fund, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance

Medical Treatment—Utilization Review—WCAB denied applicant’s petition for removal challenging WCJ’s finding that, pursuant to Dubon v. World Restoration, Inc. (2014) 79 Cal. Comp. Cases 1298 (Appeals Board en banc opinion) (Dubon II), WCAB had no jurisdiction over applicant’s appeal of utilization review determination reducing pain medication prescribed by treating physician for applicant’s 1999 and 2001 industrial injuries because defendant’s utilization review was timely made, and…