Rose v. Geico

In this workers’ compensation appeal, claimant seeks review of an order denying the compensability of her claimed repetitive trauma injury and associated benefits. We agree that the Judge of Compensation Claims (JCC) imposed an improper burden of proof on her, and, for the reasons that follow, reverse the JCC’s denial of benefits.

The parties were previously before this court, at which time we affirmed the JCC’s finding that the statute of limitations had expired regarding claimant’s compensable bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome with a 1999 date of accident, and reversed the JCC’s finding that…