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Case Name San Francisco Unified School Dist. v. WCAB (Cordozo)
Date 11/16/2010
Note A workers' compensation judge must consider nonindustrial factors while deciding whether good faith personnel actions were the substantial cause of a psychiatric injury, the 1st District Court of Appeal concluded.
Citation A128365
WCC Citation WCC 38202010 CA
SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. APPEALS BD. Cal. App. 4th 1 (2010) SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and LINDA CARDOZO, Respondents. San Francisco Unified School District (District) filed a petition for writ of review arguing that the ALJ should only have considered the total of the industrial causes and disregarded the nonindustrial causes when calculating the percentage of the psychiatric injury attributable to good faith personnel actions. *fn3 BACKGROUND Cardozo, an elementary school bilingual teacher for District for 20 years, submitted a claim for workers' compensation benefits, claiming temporary disability from June 10, 2006, to August 21, 2007. The parties selected Dr. Allan Kipperman as the agreed medical examiner and Cardozo first saw him in August 2007.

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