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WCAB Vacates Order Awarding Reimbursement for Worker's Medical Marijuana

By Sherri Okamoto (Legal Reporter)

Thursday, April 16, 2015 | 4

The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has for the second time rescinded an award ordering a workers' compensation insurance carrier to reimburse an injured worker for his self-procured medical marijuana. Administrative Law Judge Robert Pusey in 2012 ruled that Christopher Cockrell could recoup "a sum not to exceed the lower of the fee schedule for medications being replaced by the medical cannabis or the actual expense of the self-procured item." A WCAB panel comprised of Commissioners Deidra Lowe, Alfonso Moresi and Marguerite Sweeney vacated that award three months late...

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