Lands v. Tony's Seafood

SUMMARY DISPOSITION

|/The claimant-appellant, Bernard Lands, appeals an adverse judgment of the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration, District 5, dismissing his claim for workers’ compensation benefits instituted against his employer, Tony’s Seafood, and its workers’ compensation insurer, The Travelers Insurance Company. We affirm.

Following the presentation of the claimant’s evidence, the defendants moved for involuntary dismissal on the grounds that the claimant failed to overcome the statutory presumption against the causal connection of his claimed occupational disease, carpal…