Department of Education v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

PETERSON, P. J.

In this case, we hold that the Workers’ Compensation

Appeals Board (Board) did not have jurisdiction to alter the permanent and stationary date of the earliest industrial injury sustained by respondent Thelma Swain Gill (applicant), in order to apply the principles enunciated in Wilkinson v. Workers’ Comp. Appeals Bd. (1977) 19 Cal.3d 491 [138 Cal.Rptr. 696, 564 P.2d 848] (Wilkinson) and to award applicant a single combined permanent disability (PD) rating of 100 percent for her three successive industrial injuries. Even though the threshold prerequisites of Wilkinson are…