Western Baptist Hospital v. Kelly

LEIBSON, Justice.

The Administrative Law Judge (AU) denied Faye Kelly’s claim for disability benefits from a neck injury allegedly occurring May 31, 1985. The AU held that Ms. Kelly failed to sustain the burden of proving the work-relatedness of her injury.

Ms. Kelly appealed the AU’s decision to the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB). In a 12-page opinion, after a careful review of the testimony introduced at the trial level, the WCB reversed and remanded, having concluded that in this particular case the question resolved itself to one of “causal relationship ... not readily apparent to a…