State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

EPSTEIN, Acting P. J.

State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (the Board). The order denied the State Fund’s petition for reconsideration and, instead, affirmed an award in favor of Monica Rodarte finding the date of cumulative trauma injury was the first day of compensable temporary disability and placing all liability on State Fund pursuant to Labor Code section 5500.5. State Fund contends the legal date of injury was some 11 months before, when her treating physician prescribed a splint and she returned to…