Aida Jimenez, vs. United Health Group; Travelers Property Casualty Insurance,

In this case, Aida Jimenez was employed as a customer service representative and sustained industrial injury to her psyche, neck, back, and in the form of headaches, causing temporary disability from May 18, 2015 to the present and continuing. The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board granted the defendant's petition for reconsideration and affirmed the findings of industrial injury to the psyche and temporary disability. However, the issues of industrial injury to the neck, back and in the form of headaches were deferred because the present record did not contain substantial medical evidence of industrial causation with regard to these conditions. The award was made in favor of Aida Jimenez against Travelers Property Casualty Insurance for temporary disability, further medical treatment, and payment to the Employment Development Department

United Health Group; Travelers Property Casualty Insurance, Aida Jimenez, WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIAAIDA JIMENEZ,Appllcantvs.UNITED HEALTH GROUP; TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE,Defendants.Case No. ADJ10030360(Anaheim District Office)OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION AND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION            Defendant seeks reconsideration of a workers’ compensation administrative law judge’s (WCJ) Findings and Award of February 17, 2017, wherein it was found that, while employed as a customer service representative during a cumulative period ending on May 18, 2015, applicant sustained industrial injury to her psyche, neck, back, and in the form of headaches, causing temporary disability from May 18, 2015 to the present and continuing.            Defendant contends that the WCJ erred in ( 1) finding industrial injury to the psyche, arguing that applicant failed in her burden of showing industrial causation of the psyche injury and arguing that any psyche injury was substantially caused by good faith, nondiscriminatory personnel actions, in (2) finding industrial injury to the neck, back and in the form of headaches, arguing that there is no substantial medical evidence of industrial causation, and in (3) finding that the psyche injury had caused temporary disability from May 18, 2015 to the present and continuing. We have received an Answer, and the WCJ has filed a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration (Report).            We will affirm the findings of industrial injury to the psyche and temporary disability for the reasons stated by the WCJ in the Report. However, we will defer the issues of industrial injury to the neck, back and in the form of headaches because the present record does not contain substantial medical evidence of industrial causation with regard to these conditions.            The only medical evidence introduced at trial by the applicant with regard to her physical

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