Place v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

TOBRINER, J.

Petitioner Theodore Place seeks review of a decision after reconsideration of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board denying him an award for permanent disability. Place sustained an injury to his back in a fall that occurred in the course of his employment as a truck driver on June 26, 1967; the sole issue turns on whether substantial evidence supports the board’s finding that he suffered no permanent injury from this trauma. The board’s adverse determination emanates from a single medical report, to the exclusion of other medical reports. We conclude that the one…