SMB Stage Line, Inc. v. Leach

Sognier, Chief Judge.

Betty Leach filed a workers’ compensation claim against SMB Stage Line, Inc. (SMB) seeking medical and disability benefits for a back injury that she alleged arose from her work as a truck driver for SMB. After a hearing, the administrative law judge denied the claim on the basis that the injury resulted from congenital conditions rather than a work-related accident. Leach appealed to the State Board of Workers’ Compensation, which accepted some of the ALJ’s findings of fact but ruled Leach’s injury was compensable because her job performance had aggravated a pre-existing…