Injury AOE/COE From Tuberculosis: Cal. Comp. Cases October Advanced Postings (10/12/2016)

Here’s the latest batch of advanced postings for the October 2016 issue of Cal. Comp. Cases.

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OneBeacon America Insurance Company, insurer for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Timothy Cole, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance

Injury AOE/COE—Tuberculosis—WCAB held that applicant sales manager sustained injury AOE/COE to back and internal system (tuberculosis) in period from 11/1/2004 to 2/16/2014, based on applicant’s credible and unrebutted testimony and reports and deposition testimony from panel qualified medical evaluator, when WCAB found that…

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Washington Hospital, PSI, adjusted by Tristar Risk Management, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, Diane Strey, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance

Psychiatric Injury—Good Faith Personnel Actions—WCAB affirmed WCJ’s finding that applicant labor and delivery nurse suffered compensable injury to her psyche during period ending on 8/20/2010, and that defendant failed to meet burden of proving that applicant’s claim for psychiatric injury was barred by good faith personnel action defense in Labor Code § 3208.3(h), when medical evidence established that applicant’s psychiatric injury was caused by stress of being ordered by defendant to attend retraining program and having to abruptly leave practice of nursing during her attendance, allegedly based on complaints by several physicians regarding…

Mark Cronin, Petitioner v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, City of Los Angeles, PSI, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance

Medical Treatment—Timeliness of Independent Medical Review Determinations—In case involving medical treatment dispute for applicant police officer’s admitted injury to cervical spine, right hip, and both wrists and claimed injury to lumbar spine, both in period from 9/6/1996 through 6/30/2015, majority of WCAB panel…

St. Vincent de Paul, Arrowpoint Capital, for Arrowood Indemnity Company (successor to Royal Insurance Company), Petitioners v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, TCI Tires, Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems, Liberty Insurance Corporation, Dwayne Groves, Respondents, lexis.com, Lexis Advance

Injury AOE/COE—Subsequent Injuries—WCAB held that applicant did not sustain cumulative trauma injury AOE/COE to knee and back from 1/31/2005 through 2/1/2006, when WCAB found that applicant sustained two stipulated injuries as maintenance man and painter for petitioner, i.e., left knee injury in 2001 and low back injury in 2005 as compensable consequence of 2001 knee injury, and was issued award in 2005 for left knee and low back injuries that included…

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