Hicks v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division

HILL, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] Irene Hicks (Hicks) appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Medical Commission (the Medical Commission) denying her request for worker’s compensation benefits for a September 2001 spinal fusion surgery that, she claimed, was the product of a work-related injury she suffered in July 1998. The Medical Commission concluded that Hicks was not a credible witness, and that she had failed in her burden of proving causation, as substantial evidence showed that Hicks’ work-related injury had resolved before her surgery. We affirm.

ISSUES

[¶ 2] Hicks presents three…