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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded the prior award, finding insufficient medical evidence to determine industrial psychiatric injury due to incomplete records requested by both treating physicians. The Board also noted the WCJ may have misapplied the Benson doctrine regarding apportionment of the psychiatric injury across three separate industrial incidents. The case is returned to the trial level for further proceedings to develop the medical record and properly address causation and apportionment issues.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration and rescinded the prior award, finding insufficient medical evidence to determine industrial psychiatric injury due to incomplete records requested by both treating physicians. The Board also noted the WCJ may have misapplied the Benson doctrine regarding apportionment of the psychiatric injury across three separate industrial incidents. The case is returned to the trial level for further proceedings to develop the medical record and properly address causation and apportionment issues.
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