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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) granted reconsideration and rescinded a prior award finding a right knee injury compensable as a consequence of an admitted back injury. The WCAB determined that while the need for knee surgery was supported by substantial medical evidence, the record lacked substantial medical evidence to establish industrial causation of the knee injury as a consequence of the back injury. The case was remanded for further development of the record on the issue of causation.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) granted reconsideration and rescinded a prior award finding a right knee injury compensable as a consequence of an admitted back injury. The WCAB determined that while the need for knee surgery was supported by substantial medical evidence, the record lacked substantial medical evidence to establish industrial causation of the knee injury as a consequence of the back injury. The case was remanded for further development of the record on the issue of causation.
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