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A total of three
Appeals Panel decisions have been published since the beginning of September.
System participants can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that even when your
judge zones out during the hearing, the Appeals Panel has your back:
In Appeal No. 241147, the Panel remanded the case because the ALJ recounted a
mechanism of injury in his/her decision that was nowhere in evidence. The ALJ
wrote that the claimant slipped and fell backwards five feet and had pliers in
his back pocket. Instead, the claimant testified that he felt a sharp pain in
his left shoulder while sanding an airplane.
Similarly, in Appeal No. 241172, the Panel reversed a 0% IR and rendered a
decision that the IR was 5% because there was no certification in evidence from
any doctor certifying the claimant with a 0% IR.
And in other news, the Appeals Panel continued to demonstrate its usefulness by
reforming a finding of fact in Appeal No. 241035 to correct the parties’
stipulation to an anomaly of the tooth position of fully erupted teeth to
numbers 9, 23, and 24 and not tooth 10 or 25.
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