This case involves a worker’s compensation claim by Juana Juarez against Pacific Hotel Management and Travelers Property & Casualty Company. Juarez was injured while employed as a housekeeper and was found to have sustained an admitted industrial injury to her back and psyche causing temporary disability from March 11, 2013 to the present and continuing. The defendants sought reconsideration of the decision, arguing that the worker’s compensation judge had erred in finding that the applicant’s injury caused temporary disability. The court granted reconsideration, rescinded the original decision, and returned the matter to the worker’s compensation judge for further development of the record and decision. The court noted that a partially temporarily disabled worker is expected to work during his partial disability if suitable work is available, and
PACIFIC HOTEL MANAGEMENT; TRAVELERS PROPERTY & CASUALTY COMPANY JUANA JUAREZ WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIAJUANA JUAREZ, Applicant,vs.PACIFIC HOTEL MANAGEMENT;TRAVELERS PROPERTY & CASUALTYCOMPANY, Defendants.Case No. ADJ8314578(San Francisco District Office)OPINION AND ORDER GRANTINGRECONSIDERATION AND DECISIONAFTER RECONSIDERATION Defendant seeks reconsideration of a workers’ compensation administrative law judge’s (WCJ) Findings and Award of October 10, 2013, wherein it was found that, while employed as a housekeeper during a cumulative period ending on July 1, 2011, applicant sustained admitted industrial injury to her back and psyche causing temporary disability from March 11, 2013 to the present and continuing. Defendant contends that the WCJ erred in finding that the applicant’s injury caused temporary disability from March 11, 2013 to the present and continuing. We have received an Answer and the WCJ has filed a Report and Recommend
