O'Hara v. J. Christy Construction Co.

John B. Robbins, Judge.

This appeal concerns the denial of a workers’ compensation claim for additional wage-loss disability benefits or permanent and total disability, over and above an earlier award of twenty-percent wage-loss disability. In a decision rendered by the Commission on January 15, 2005, it denied appellant John O’Hara’s claim on two grounds: (1) the claim was barred by res judicata, and (2) even if the claim was not barred by res judicata, appellant failed to document “objective change in claimant’s physical condition,” to support his claim for additional wage-loss benefits. We…