Brown v. A-Dec, Inc.

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board affirming an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) order holding that the symptoms and treatment of claimant’s degenerative cervical condition are not compensable as an occupational disease. The medical record shows that claimant’s cervical symptoms were brought on by her work as a dental parts assembler but that her current condition requiring treatment combines with a preexisting age-related degenerative disc condition also known as osteoarthritis or cervical spondylosis. The Board, in adopting the ALJ’s order, ruled that…