Supreme Court Denies Review of 2 Comp Cases, Including LC 3208.3(d) Dispute

The California Supreme Court this week denied review of two workers' compensation matters, including one involving a panel decision that a janitorial worker suffering from a rare disease was not entitled to an increase in his level of permanent disability base on an alleged injury to his psyche. John Aresco had developed Guillian-Barre syndrome, a rare disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system, in 1998. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, it affects about one person in 100,000, and its causes are...