Sanders v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.

I respectfully dissent. The decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals seems to me an eminently sensible resolution of the employee’s compensation claim.

On October 26, 1990 Deartice Sanders, a flight attendant whose average weekly wage was $805.69, sustained a compensable low back injury in the nature of an acute lumbo-sacral strain. The compensation judge rejected the opinion of one of the employee’s treating physicians that the employee had sustained a 9% permanent partial disability by reason of herniation of the disc at L5-S1 and accepted the opinion of Dr. Thomas Lit-man, an…