Ruth Family Medical Center v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

Ruth Family Medical Center (Employer) appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) affirming the decision of a workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) to grant the claim petition of Natawadee Steinhouse (Claimant) and to suspend Claimant’s compensation benefits. We affirm.

Claimant had been employed as a family physician with Employer since 1987 when, on October 5,1988, Claimant suffered injuries to her neck and back in a motor vehicle accident. (WCJ’s Findings of Fact, Nos. 1, 3, 4.) Claimant filed a claim petition alleging that, because she sustained these…