In this case, Teresa Edge, an employee of Ralph’s Grocery Store, was found to be 100% totally permanently disabled as a result of an industrial injury she incurred to her neck, shoulders, hands and wrists while employed by the store. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board reversed the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Administrative Law Judge, rescinding the decision and entering new findings and a new award based upon their determination that the Diminished Future Earning Capacity adjustment factor contained in the 2005 Permanent Disability Rating Schedule was not rebutted by the applicant by substantial evidence in light of the entire record. The Board also determined that the WCJ erred in finding the applicant’s average weekly earnings to be $828.00. The Board amended the permanent
RALPH’S GROCERY STORE, Permissibly Self-Insured TERESA EDGE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD2 STATE OF CALIFORNIATERESA EDGE, Applicant,vs.RALPH’S GROCERY STORE, Permissibly Self-Insured, Defendant.Case No. ADJ1205641 (MON 0324473)(Marina del Rey District Office)OPINION AND ORDERDENYING PETITION FORRECONSIDERATION Applicant seeks reconsideration of our earlier October 16, 2013 Opinion And Decision After Reconsideration (Decision) wherein we acted upon defendant’s petition for reconsideration of the November 16, 2012 Findings and Award of the workers’ compensation administrative law judge (WCJ) who found that applicant was 100% totally permanently disabled as a result of industrial injury she incurred to her neck, shoulders, hands and wrists while employed by defendant as a deli manager on February 3, 2004, with no basis for apportionment, by rescinding the WCJ’s November 16, 2012 decision and entering new findings and a new award based upon our determination that the
