Dellamonica Jr., James

James Dellamonica, Jr., a CAL FIRE fire captain, previously stipulated to 72% permanent disability in 2014 for hypertensive heart disease, COPD, and bilateral hearing loss arising from a cumulative injury (March 1, 1967 to June 11, 2010). After filing a timely petition to reopen, he claimed new and further disability including coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation (the latter developing as a complication of a 2018 CT-guided lung biopsy). The WCJ awarded 85% PD, found the coronary artery disease industrial but the atrial fibrillation non-industrial, and used AME Dr. Bellinger's method of adding internal WPIs while adding the hearing loss disability. Both parties sought reconsideration. The WCAB panel rescinded the F&A and remanded, finding the record required further development regarding the heart-trouble presumption, the compensability of the atrial fibrillation, the rebuttal of the CVC under Vigil, and the vocational apportionment analysis under Nunes.