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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration of a Findings and Award, upholding the determination that applicant Surya Correa sustained a psychiatric injury arising from her employment with the City of Pasadena. The Board gave significant weight to the administrative law judge's credibility determinations, finding no substantial evidence to warrant overturning them. The judge's report, which the Board adopted, addressed the applicant's credibility issues, including undisclosed accidents and misrepresentations, but still found the psychiatric injury to be a compensable consequence of the industrial orthopedic injury. Applicant's separate petition for reconsideration regarding prejudgment interest on temporary disability was also denied as that issue had been deferred and not yet decided.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration of a Findings and Award, upholding the determination that applicant Surya Correa sustained a psychiatric injury arising from her employment with the City of Pasadena. The Board gave significant weight to the administrative law judge's credibility determinations, finding no substantial evidence to warrant overturning them. The judge's report, which the Board adopted, addressed the applicant's credibility issues, including undisclosed accidents and misrepresentations, but still found the psychiatric injury to be a compensable consequence of the industrial orthopedic injury. Applicant's separate petition for reconsideration regarding prejudgment interest on temporary disability was also denied as that issue had been deferred and not yet decided.
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