Nelson v. EBI Companies

*18GILLETTE, P. J.

Claimant appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed a referee’s order awarding her 25 percent unscheduled permanent partial disability and reinstated a determination order that awarded her only 5 percent unscheduled disability. The Board held that claimant’s failure to continue a weight loss program recommended by her physicians was keeping her from recovering from her injury as fully as she otherwise would and downrated her degree of permanent partial disability accordingly. We affirm.

Claimant is a 30-year old certified nurse’s aid who sustained a…