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This case involves an applicant seeking reconsideration of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision regarding her industrial injury as a cosmetologist. The Board denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration while granting the applicant's petition. The original award of 71% permanent disability, with a life pension, was affirmed and amended to clarify the credit for advances at $3,368.40 and to include "upper back" as an injured body part. The defendant's arguments regarding apportionment and the sufficiency of medical evidence were rejected.
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This case involves an applicant seeking reconsideration of a Workers' Compensation Appeals Board decision regarding her industrial injury as a cosmetologist. The Board denied the defendant's petition for reconsideration while granting the applicant's petition. The original award of 71% permanent disability, with a life pension, was affirmed and amended to clarify the credit for advances at $3,368.40 and to include "upper back" as an injured body part. The defendant's arguments regarding apportionment and the sufficiency of medical evidence were rejected.
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