Stores v. Miller

THOMPSON, Judge.

The employer/carrier (E/C) appeal a workers’ compensation order awarding claimant permanent total disability (PTD) benefits and ordering the E/C to pay claimant’s outstanding medical bills. We reverse the PTD award and remand.

Claimant injured her lower back in a compensable accident in June 1982. She saw a variety of doctors, including orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, a psychiatrist and a general practitioner. She also sought chiropractic treatment. None of the doctors who treated claimant were able to arrive at a definitive diagnosis of her condition, and several…