Employee claims injuries, IBS and chronic pain syndrome

A workers’ compensation judge correctly found that the applicant successfully disproved the scheduled whole person impairment (WPI) rating and showed that she was permanently totally disabled, the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board of California recently said.

The Employment Development Department – the defendant in the case of Collie vs. State of California, Employment Development Department, legally uninsured, administered by State Compensation Insurance Fund, defendants – hired the applicant as an employment program representative.

The applicant claimed workplace injuries to the lumbar spine, cervical spine, left shoulder, right hip, right knee, psyche, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and chronic pain syndrome. The Disability Evaluation Unit rated the applicant’s injury at 71% permanent disability.

Last March, the workers’ compensation administrative law judge found that the applicant was permanently totally disabled upon sustaining injuries arising out of and in the course of employment (AOE/COE). The judge found no basis for apportionment to non-industrial factors.

The defendant asked for reconsideration of the judge’s decision. A panel of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board of California denied the petition for reconsideration.

Substantial medical evidence supports chronic pain syndrome

The panel found substantial medical evidence supporting the judge’s finding that the applicant had chronic pain syndrome...

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