Good Samaritan Hospital v. Stoddard

Employer, Good Samaritan Hospital, seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order that affirmed the referee’s holding that claimant’s wrist claim was not barred by a previous settlement claiming that the Board committed legal error.1 We reverse.

These facts found by the referee and adopted by the Board are supported by substantial evidence. On January 6, 1990, while claimant was working for employer as a nurse’s assistant, her right wrist was injured when a patient grabbed it and bent it backward. Claimant’s physician, Dr. Brown, and her treating orthopedist, Dr. Cohen, diagnosed the…