State Industrial Insurance System v. Shirley

*352OPINION

On January 9, 1989, respondent Kurt Shirley (“Shirley”), while employed as a part-time manual laborer for appellant Greyhound Exposition Services, Inc. (“GES”), injured his spine by the repetitive motion of picking up fifty-pound boxes and putting them under a table. As a result, Shirley filed a claim with appellant State Industrial Insurance System (“SIIS”) for, among other benefits, a vocational rehabilitation award.

Thereafter, SIIS referred Shirley for a Comprehensive Integrated Workup (“CIW”), where a panel of physicians from different medical disciplines, including neurosurgery,…