Jacobson v. State Accident Insurance Fund

The sole question in this Workers’ Compensation case is whether claimant established by a preponderance of the evidence that he had suffered an aggravation of a compensable injury to his low back since the last arrangement of compensation in March of 1975. The referee determined that he had done so, and the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) reversed.

The injury to which this aggravation claim relates occurred on November 18, 1973. The employer accepted the claim, and later that month claimant was given a myelogram, as a result of which he was advised that the results were essentially within…