Claim of Sons-Brown v. Oas Hills Dining Hall

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 17, 1999, which ruled that claimant’s disability was causally related to her employment and awarded her workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant sustained work-related injuries to her lower back in 1993 and 1994 for which she was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. After each injury, she returned to work and the compensation cases were ultimately closed. In November 1995, at the age of 33, she sustained a neck injury in a car accident unrelated to her work. She has not returned to work since then.

In 1998, at claimant’s…