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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration to amend the initial findings and awards. The Board found that the Agreed Medical Examiner's opinion supported a single, unapportioned award for the applicant's cumulative trauma and specific injury, totaling 74% permanent disability. This decision overturned the prior apportionment of disability between the two injury dates. Finally, the Board accepted the applicant's attorney's apology for a procedural error and declined to impose sanctions.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration to amend the initial findings and awards. The Board found that the Agreed Medical Examiner's opinion supported a single, unapportioned award for the applicant's cumulative trauma and specific injury, totaling 74% permanent disability. This decision overturned the prior apportionment of disability between the two injury dates. Finally, the Board accepted the applicant's attorney's apology for a procedural error and declined to impose sanctions.
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