Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Porter

Deen, Chief Judge.

The claimant in this workers’ compensation case suffered from a sprained or ruptured vertebral disc which eventually required surgical procedures. The only question in the record is whether the injury was employment-related. The administrative law judge, examining the whole record, found that the injury was not work-related, based, as it appears, on discrepancies in the testimony. The claimant told of an accident at a certain address, but he was not there at the time stated; he did not mention any accident to either examining physician; the length of time he had been…