Mountain Meadows Nursing Center v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado

Opinion by Judge CRISWELL.

Mountain Meadows Nursing Center (employer) petitions for review of a final order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) which denied its request to apportion its liability for the permanent total disability (PTD) benefits payable to Brenda Kessler (claimant). We affirm.

While working for employer in 1991, claimant sustained an admitted injury to her ankle which eventually resulted in reflex sympathetic dystrophy in both her lower and upper extremities. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) found that, because of this condition, claimant had severe physical…