Fisk

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board) upheld a determination by a workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) that applicant, Jerry D. Fisk, had sustained new and further industrial disability involving his heart and vascular system but was not entitled to further medical treatment. We have concluded that the refusal to award further medical treatment was erroneous and that the Board’s order denying reconsideration must be annulled insofar as it upholds the denial of further medical treatment and that further medical treatment must be awarded.

Factual and Procedural History

Applicant, Jerry Fisk, bom March 19, 1942, was employed from 1963 to 1988 as a supervising psychiatric technician at Camarillo State Hospital by the State of California’s Department of Developmental Services, which was legally uninsured with claims adjusted by the State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF). According to the November 8, 1988, report of the agreed medical examiner, Edward J. O’Neill, M.D., applicant had “a very strong family history of vascular disease, as well as a history of smoking, serious obesity, and hyperlipidemia.”

Dr. O’Neill reported that applicant told him that “in the course…