PALMDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT YORK INSURANCE SERVICES GROUP LATRISHA MAJORS WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIALATRISHA MAJORS, Applicant,vs.PALMDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT; YORKINSURANCE SERVICES GROUP, Defendants.Case No. ADJ7509842(Van Nuys District Office)OPINION AND ORDERGRANTING PETITION FORRECONSIDERATIONAND DECISION AFTERRECONSIDERATION Applicant seeks reconsideration of the April 14, 2014 Findings and Award issued by a workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ), wherein the WCJ found that applicant, while employed on January 7, 2010, as a special education substitute, sustained industrial injury to her back, causing 0% permanent disability, and no need for further medical treatment. Applicant contends that the WCJ erred in finding that her injury to her back did not result in any permanent disability or need for further medical treatment, arguing that the WCJ should have relied on the opinion of the panel qualified medical evaluator (PQME), Vincent Gumbs, M.D., and should not have relied on the reporting of her primary treating physician, Richard Nussbaum, M.D. Defendant filed an Answer. The WCJ provided a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration (Report), recommending that the decision be amended to add the body part of the head to the finding of injury. For the reasons set forth herein and in the WCJ’s Report, which we adopt and incorporate, except that we do not incorporate the discussion of DRE II impairment at page 3, we will grant reconsideration, and affirm the April 14, 2014 Findings and Award. We will amend the decision as recommended by the WCJ to reflect that the head is added to the finding of injury. In the Report, the WCJ recommends that the head be included as an injured body part. The WCJ wrote in the Report as follows: , “Although applicant did sustained [sic] a concussion from the fall, there is no medical evidence that this concussion led to the
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