Bagdoyan, Karen

Applicant Karen Bagdoyan, a loader/unloader for Goodwill Industries of Southern California (permissibly self-insured), sustained an admitted industrial injury on June 30, 2013. The WCJ found industrial injury to multiple body parts including the cervical spine and deferred permanent disability, while in the Opinion on Decision ordering further development on Almaraz/Guzman rating and a possible psyche injury. Defendant sought reconsideration, arguing the cervical spine was not placed at issue at trial and lacked substantial medical evidence of causation, and that the WCJ erred in ordering discovery on an unclaimed psyche injury. The Board granted reconsideration, amending the decision to defer the cervical spine issue (with jurisdiction reserved) on due process grounds and declining to order psyche discovery. The Board left intact the general award of further medical treatment, noting it could later be enforced for unincluded conditions.