Matney v. Matney Chiropractic Clinic

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lockett, J.:

Employee chiropractor, who owned all the stock of an incorporated chiropractic clinic, injured his back at work. The Workers Compensation Board (Board) overruled the administrative law judge’s (ALJ) award, finding that (1) because the employee chiropractor had not been disabled from earning full wages for more than 1 week, the employee was not entitled to a permanent partial disability award, and (2) due to the fact that the employee and the corporate employer were the same individual, the employer’s insurance carrier had the statutory…