Bowers v. West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner

DAVIS, Justice:

The instant matter consists of two appeals from the Workers’ Compensation Board of Review (hereinafter “the Board”) that have been consolidated because they present the same issue for this Court’s consideration and resolution. In both cases, the claimant suffered a work-related injury in the course of and as a result of his employment. Both claimants have continued to experience pain from their work-related injuries, neither claimant has been able to return to work or resume normal activities, and both claimants have developed depression that their treating physicians have…