United Airlines, Inc. v. Brown

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board holding that employer could not discontinue claimant’s temporary disability payments based on its denial of compensability. We affirm.

Claimant compensably injured her lower back. She also had degenerative disc disease in her lower spine. Employer accepted the lower back claim and began paying temporary disability. Several weeks later, employer issued a “denial of continuing compensability,” and unilaterally stopped paying claimant temporary disability benefits, because it concluded that the preexisting disease was the major…