Lopez v. Queen Lace Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 18, 1995, which ruled that there had been no change in claimant’s medical condition.

Claimant sustained a compensable back injury in March 1975. His case was closed in August 1978 following a finding of permanent partial disability and the payment of a lump-sum nonschedule adjustment in the amount of $8,000. The case was subsequently reopened based upon the representation of claimant’s treating physician that there had been a change in *769claimant’s medical condition involving, among other symptoms, an exacerbation of his back…