Glenn Garcia — ADJ9015624

Applicant, a fire fighter/battalion chief, settled a circulatory system (hypertensive heart disease) and hearing loss claim by Stipulations with Award on May 15, 2015. He then filed a Petition to Reopen and Amended Applications adding numerous orthopedic body parts, digestive, and respiratory systems, alleging new and further disability based on a worsening arrhythmia and additional injuries. The WCJ found no new and further disability and ordered applicant take nothing on his Petition to Reopen. On reconsideration, the Board agreed that the orthopedic claims were essentially new injury claims not subject to a section 5410 Petition to Reopen and that applicant failed to show good cause to reopen under section 5803, but found the ear/hearing loss claim was properly raised because it had been pled but not adjudicated in the original Award. The Board rescinded the F&O and returned the matter to the WCJ to address the bilateral ear cumulative injury claim.