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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) granted reconsideration and rescinded a prior decision, holding that a separation agreement did not bar the applicant from receiving temporary total disability benefits. The WCAB found that the payments under the separation agreement were not salary continuation and that such agreements cannot waive workers' compensation benefits. The case was returned to the WCJ to issue an order for temporary total disability benefits from September 17, 2013, to the present, without credit for severance payments.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) granted reconsideration and rescinded a prior decision, holding that a separation agreement did not bar the applicant from receiving temporary total disability benefits. The WCAB found that the payments under the separation agreement were not salary continuation and that such agreements cannot waive workers' compensation benefits. The case was returned to the WCJ to issue an order for temporary total disability benefits from September 17, 2013, to the present, without credit for severance payments.
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