Yampolsky, Igor

Applicant Igor Yampolsky sustained industrial injury on October 1, 2016 while employed as an engineer for Cintas, affecting multiple body systems. The WCJ found that although applicant's scheduled rating under the PDRS yielded 65 percent permanent partial disability, applicant successfully rebutted that rating through vocational expert reporting (Scott Simon), establishing permanent and total disability. Both parties sought reconsideration: defendant challenged the persuasiveness of applicant's vocational expert and argued reliance on nonindustrial factors and unreliable remote testing, while applicant sought a ratable psychiatric impairment under section 4660.1(c) exceptions and addition rather than combination of disabilities. The WCAB denied both petitions, affirming the WCJ's determination that the Simon report was more persuasive and supported by AME Dr. Klein, and that the psychiatric and combination issues were moot given the permanent total disability finding. The Board also corrected a clerical error in the date of injury from October 1, 2026 to October 1, 2016.