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This case involves a workers' compensation claim for psychological and digestive injuries. The Board dismissed the employer's petition for reconsideration of an order for a replacement Qualified Medical Examiner (QME) as the order was not final. However, the Board granted removal and rescinded the order, finding the employer prejudiced by the determination that the original QME's report was irrevocably flawed. The matter was returned to the trial level for further development of the record regarding the adequacy of the QME's report and the compensability of psychiatric injury under Labor Code § 3208.3.
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This case involves a workers' compensation claim for psychological and digestive injuries. The Board dismissed the employer's petition for reconsideration of an order for a replacement Qualified Medical Examiner (QME) as the order was not final. However, the Board granted removal and rescinded the order, finding the employer prejudiced by the determination that the original QME's report was irrevocably flawed. The matter was returned to the trial level for further development of the record regarding the adequacy of the QME's report and the compensability of psychiatric injury under Labor Code § 3208.3.
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