Toossi, Mohammad

Applicant Mohammad Toossi, a transportation engineer for Caltrans, filed a claim alleging a psychiatric injury arising from interpersonal conflicts with supervisors and coworkers during his probationary employment, which ended in non-retention. The WCJ found applicant failed to meet his burden of proving industrial injury, relying primarily on the psychiatric panel QME report of Dr. Ann Davis and finding applicant's own testimony lacking credibility. Applicant, in pro per, filed a petition for reconsideration raising numerous allegations of WCJ bias, political motivation, retaliation, and personal grievances against coworkers. The WCAB denied reconsideration, adopting the WCJ's report, and dismissed the petition to the extent it sought disqualification of the WCJ because applicant failed to set forth specific facts under penalty of perjury establishing any statutory ground for disqualification.