Red Roof Inn v. Lynn

Judge Arnold Shulman.

The claimant in this workers’ compensation case was awarded disability benefits for a back injury which she sustained when she fell while putting up a shower curtain during the course of her employment as a motel housekeeper. The award was affirmed by the superior court, and we granted the employer/insurer’s application for an appeal of that ruling in order to examine their contention that the administrative law judge improperly excluded a medical deposition from evidence.

The accident occurred on June 21, 1989. After paying disability benefits to the appellee for…