Southwest Airlines/Cambridge Integrated Service v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Southwest Airlines (Employer) petitions for review of an adjudication of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) granting the claim petition of Cheryl King (Claimant). In doing so, the Board affirmed the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) that Claimant sustained a compensable work-related injury. Concluding that the testimony of Claimant’s medical expert was not competent to prove the cause of Claimant’s disability, we reverse.

The facts are as follows. Claimant began employment in October 2005 and was placed in a training program for an operations…