Cross v. Magnolia Hospital Reciprocal Group of America

Terry Crabtree, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation case, the Commission affirmed and adopted the decision of the administrative law judge to deny benefits to the appellant, Edna Cross. The Commission found that appellant failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that she sustained either a specific-incident injury or a gradual-onset injury to her back. On appeal, she asserts that the Commission erred as a matter of law in denying her claim for “temporary total disability benefits and medical benefits because there was no objective finding of the injury.” Specifically, appellant…