Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Young

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (board) that set aside employer’s denial of the ongoing compensability of claimant’s combined condition knee claim. The board found that employer had not carried its burden of proving that claimant’s work injury was no longer the major contributing cause of the need for treatment of the combined condition affecting claimant’s knee. Employer asserts that the board’s order lacked substantial reason in reaching that conclusion and that the board erred in requiring proof of a change of circumstances in the combined condition of…