Claim of Evevsky v. Liberty Mutual Group

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 27, 2003, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant was not authorized to receive medical treatment from a massage therapist.

Claimant was awarded workers’ compensation benefits for a permanent partial disability after sustaining injuries to her neck and shoulder in a work-related accident in 1993. Claimant’s case was closed in 1995, but was reopened in 2001 following, among other things, an objection by the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier to claimant’s request for authorization of treatment by a licensed massage…