CITY OF WEST COVINA, Permissibly Self- Insured Adjusted By CORVEL SUSAN WILLIAMS WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARDSTATE OF CALIFORNIASUSAN WILLIAMS, Applicant,vs.CITY OF WEST COVINA, Permissibly Self-Insured, Adjusted By CORVEL, Defendants.Case No. ADJ7754087(Long Beach DistrictOPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATIONAND DECISION AFTER RECONSIDERATION Defendant seeks reconsideration of the April 3, 2014 Findings and Award and Order issued by a workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ), wherein the WCJ found that applicant, while employed as a public information officer from March 4, 2010 to March 4, 2011, sustained industrial injury to her psyche, causing 15% permanent disability, payable at the rate of $270.00 per week. Defendant contends the WCJ erred in finding that applicant’s permanent disability indemnity was payable at the rate of $270 per week, arguing that applicant’s disability is payable at $230 per week. Defendant also contends that sanctions should be imposed against applicant and/or her counsel for failure to comply with discovery, and that the WCJ failed to rule on its Petition for Sanctions. We have considered the Petition for Reconsideration and we have reviewed the record in this matter. No Answer was received. The WCJ has filed a Report and Recommendation on Petition for Reconsideration (Report), recommending that the Petition be granted to correct the weekly rate of permanent disability indemnity awarded, and that the Petition otherwise be denied. For the reasons set forth herein and in the WCJ’s Report, which we adopt and incorporate, we will grant reconsideration, and affirm the April 3, 2014 Findings and Award and Order, except that we will amend the decision as recommended by the WCJ to correct the permanent disability weekly rate. The WCJ wrote in his Report that, “Petitioner points out that the correct indemnity rate for 15% permanent disability is $
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