WLR Foods, Inc. v. Cardosa

FITZPATRICK, Chief Judge.

WLR Foods, Inc. and Pacific Employers Insurance Company (collectively employer) appeal the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s decision awarding benefits to Villabaldo Cardosa (claimant). Employer argues, the commission erred in: (1) awarding benefits beyond the scope of claimant’s request; (2) awarding benefits for a time-barred claim; and (3) finding that claimant’s disability was causally related to his compensable injury. For the following reasons, we reverse the commission’s decision.

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Villabaldo Cardosa is a fifty-three-year-old illiterate Mexican man who has…