Carrollton Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Brown

Birdsong, Chief Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation discretionary appeal arising out of the employer’s requests for change of physicians, for suspension of benefits for failure of claimant to cooperate with rehabilitation and for termination of benefits based on claimant’s “change of condition.”

The claimant Terry Brown, while a route salesman with Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Carrollton, suffered a ruptured disk in 1978 at age 28 while lifting a Coca-Cola crate. He has had four back operations, three of them deemed unsuccessful. He has experienced increasing pain, unrelieved except by use…