Aetna Insurance v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

The sole issue on this review of an award of the Industrial Commission is whether a doctor’s testimony that a condition he believed to be temporarily disabling has, through the passage of time become permanently disabling, constitutes sufficient evidence of a “changed condition” to justify reopening.

The facts giving rise to this issue are not in substantial dispute. On May 29, 1973, the respondent employee, Gilbert Salazar, sustained an industrial back injury. The claim was accepted and benefits paid until November 6, 1973, when the claim was closed without…