Wal-Mart v. Poorman

ALSTON, Judge.

Wal-Mart (“employer”) appeals the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s (the “commission”) decision to deny Wal-Mart’s application for hearing alleging that Ashley Poorman (“claimant”) unjustifiably refused selective employment. Employer assigns two errors to the commission’s decision. Employer contends first that the commission erred in finding that employer had the burden of raising causation in its hearing application and in finding that the issue of causation was not properly before it. Additionally, employer argues that the commission erroneously and impermissibly shifted the…