Slater v. SAIF Corp.

FLYNN, J. pro tempore

Claimant seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board (board) order that upheld SAIF’s denial of claimant’s previously accepted combined condition of the left knee and upheld SAIF’s medical services denial of a diagnostic MRI for claimant’s left knee. Claimant contends that SAIF failed to meet its burden to prove that claimant suffers from a qualifying preexisting condition that became the major contributing cause of claimant’s combined condition. Claimant alternatively contends that the board applied the wrong legal standard when it required claimant to prove that the…