Dennis v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

STEVENS, Judge.

The basic problem which is presented to this Court by the writ of certiorari to review an award of The Industrial Commission of Arizona denying the reopening of a claim is a possible conflict between the report of the doctors who participated in a group consultation and the testimony of the doctors in a formal hearing.

We recite only briefly the history of this industrial matter. The petitioner was injured in an industrial accident on 6 July 1960. A laminectomy was performed on 9 January 1962. On 5 October 1962 a formal hearing was held at which the surgeon testified. One of the…