East v. Industrial Com'n of Arizona

OPINION

JACOBSON, Chief Judge.

In this review of an award of the Industrial Commission, we are faced with the determination of whether the medical evidence supports the administrative law judge’s finding that the claimant’s present physical problems are related to a post-industrial injury accident and if so, whether such a finding legally requires that a petition to reopen be denied.

The claimant, Donnell M. East, has a long history of recurrent left shoulder dislocations. They first appeared in 1966, when he injured his shoulder in a motorcycle accident which required surgery. In 1967, the…