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This case involves a correctional officer, Wanda Boult, seeking workers' compensation benefits for a cumulative trauma injury to her heart and cardiovascular system. The defendant, State of California, Department of Corrections, sought reconsideration of the finding that Ms. Boult is 100% permanently totally disabled. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration, adopting the judge's report. The court found that the defendant's argument regarding Labor Code section 4658(d)(3)(A) was inapplicable because the applicant's award was based on lifetime temporary disability indemnity, not the formula in section 4658(d)(1).
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This case involves a correctional officer, Wanda Boult, seeking workers' compensation benefits for a cumulative trauma injury to her heart and cardiovascular system. The defendant, State of California, Department of Corrections, sought reconsideration of the finding that Ms. Boult is 100% permanently totally disabled. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration, adopting the judge's report. The court found that the defendant's argument regarding Labor Code section 4658(d)(3)(A) was inapplicable because the applicant's award was based on lifetime temporary disability indemnity, not the formula in section 4658(d)(1).
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