Kauffman v. Tri-State Motor Transit Co.

PHILLIP R. GARRISON, Judge.

The issue in this workers’ compensation case is whether the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“Commission”) erred in refusing to consider the contents of a letter from a treating doctor to the claimant’s attorney on the issue of causation. We affirm.

David W. Kauffman (“Employee”) was employed as a truck driver with Tri-State Motor Transit Company (“Tri-State”) beginning in September 1988, and some of the loads he apparently drove included radioactive material. He was diagnosed with leukemia in August 1992 and died April 9,1993.

Employee’s widow, Donna L.…