Nash

Applicant Paul S. Nash, a workers’ compensation judge, filed four applications alleging cumulative and specific industrial injuries from May-1972 to May 28, 1987, to his eyes, hearing, head, back, upper and lower extremities, left hip, right shoulder, psyche, and cardiovascular system. The four cases were consolidated for hearing, and independent medical examiners (IME’s) were appointed.

On January 30, 1991, after receiving the reports of the IME’s, reviewing their depositions and a massive amount of other medical records, and conducting several evidentiary hearings, Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) Frank S. Palero found that Judge Nash had not sustained any industrial injury except for a stipulated industrial injury to his back. The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board), after this court issued an alternative writ to compel the Board to render a decision on applicant’s petition for reconsideration, filed its opinion and decision after reconsideration on February 17, 1993. The Board amended the WCJ’s findings in some respects, but upheld the WCJ’s basic determination that the applicant’s most serious medical complications were nonindustrial, and thus not…