Hutchings v. Americas Propane

Claimant challenges a Workers’ Compensation Board order that upheld employer’s “combined condition” denial and employer’s denial of claimant’s request for medical services.1 On judicial review, claimant contends that employer’s combined condition denial was improper because employer failed to prove that claimant had a preexisting condition at the time of his work injury and, thus, the preexisting condition identified by employer could not have been the major contributing cause of claimant’s disability and need for treatment. As for employer’s medical services denial, claimant argues that his…