Munoz, Ramon

Ramon Munoz, a painter/maintenance worker, sustained an admitted industrial injury to his right knee and hypertension on January 13, 2016. After reopening his initially unrepresented claim, the WCJ found 75% PPD after apportioning the knee but no apportionment of the hypertension disability, denied defendant a credit for claimed temporary disability overpayment, and awarded applicant's attorney an 18% fee. Defendant petitioned for reconsideration challenging all three rulings. The Board granted reconsideration only to amend the F&A to add an enforceable finding that attorney's fees be held in trust pending the filing of a fee disclosure statement, but otherwise affirmed the WCJ, finding the internist PQME's apportionment opinion was not substantial evidence and that equitable principles justified denial of the overpayment credit.