Young, Karen

Karen Young, a medical assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (permissibly self-insured), claimed a cumulative psychiatric injury ending June 23, 2020, attributable to overwork, a negative performance evaluation, and harassment by a supervisor. The WCJ found a compensable psychiatric injury based on the PQME report of psychiatrist Dr. Marina Lensky, who opined that industrial factors were the predominant cause, and deferred all other claimed body parts. Defendant sought reconsideration, attacking the substantiality of Dr. Lensky's report and arguing it should be allowed further discovery to raise a good-faith personnel action defense under Labor Code section 3208.3(h). The Board adopted the WCJ's Report, found the report constituted substantial medical evidence, and noted defendant failed to raise the personnel action defense at trial despite having two years to develop the record. The Petition for Reconsideration was denied.