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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied Deborah Kos's petition for reconsideration regarding her back and leg injury. The Board upheld its prior decision reducing her permanent disability from 100% to 10%, based on an agreed medical evaluator's opinion that 90% of her disability was due to non-industrial factors. Furthermore, the Board found that Kos waived the issue of whether her claim should have been treated as cumulative trauma and affirmed that it lacks the authority to declare statutes unconstitutional.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied Deborah Kos's petition for reconsideration regarding her back and leg injury. The Board upheld its prior decision reducing her permanent disability from 100% to 10%, based on an agreed medical evaluator's opinion that 90% of her disability was due to non-industrial factors. Furthermore, the Board found that Kos waived the issue of whether her claim should have been treated as cumulative trauma and affirmed that it lacks the authority to declare statutes unconstitutional.
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