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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration of an administrative law judge's decision that applicant Hector Vazquez's heart disease was not industrially caused. The majority adopted the judge's report, noting a clerical error in identifying the medical examiner as an Agreed Medical Examiner (AME) instead of a Panel Qualified Medical Examiner, but found this did not affect the judge's analysis. Commissioner Brass dissented, arguing the record was undeveloped regarding job stress's contribution to the heart disease, and that the medical examiner's opinion was not substantial evidence to rebut the statutory presumption of industrial causation for correctional officers.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration of an administrative law judge's decision that applicant Hector Vazquez's heart disease was not industrially caused. The majority adopted the judge's report, noting a clerical error in identifying the medical examiner as an Agreed Medical Examiner (AME) instead of a Panel Qualified Medical Examiner, but found this did not affect the judge's analysis. Commissioner Brass dissented, arguing the record was undeveloped regarding job stress's contribution to the heart disease, and that the medical examiner's opinion was not substantial evidence to rebut the statutory presumption of industrial causation for correctional officers.
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