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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted the defendant's petition for reconsideration to correct a clerical error in the original findings. The Board affirmed the prior finding that the applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of employment to his head, traumatic brain injury, and psyche, as stipulated by the parties. The Board denied the defendant's request to withdraw the stipulation regarding the psyche injury, finding no good cause to relieve them from the agreement made during a lengthy hearing. The Board amended the findings to reflect injury to the neck, correcting a factual error where the original order stated injury to the back.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted the defendant's petition for reconsideration to correct a clerical error in the original findings. The Board affirmed the prior finding that the applicant sustained injury arising out of and in the course of employment to his head, traumatic brain injury, and psyche, as stipulated by the parties. The Board denied the defendant's request to withdraw the stipulation regarding the psyche injury, finding no good cause to relieve them from the agreement made during a lengthy hearing. The Board amended the findings to reflect injury to the neck, correcting a factual error where the original order stated injury to the back.
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