RCI SE Services Division/Aetna Casualty & Surety v. Sisson

NIMMONS, Judge.

The employer and carrier (E/C) appeal from a workers’ compensation order awarding claimant temporary partial disability benefits, medical benefits, rehabilitation expenses, penalties, interest and costs, and attorney’s fees. We reverse.

Claimant, a twenty-six year old welder, first worked for RCI in New York in 1980. In 1982, while in New York, claimant sustained an on-the-job injury when he fell at work and struck his head causing bleeding from his left ear. Claimant was diagnosed by medical doctors as having a severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, such loss being…