Public Service Co. of Colorado v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

Opinion by

Judge KAPELKE.

In this workers' compensation proceeding, Public Service Company of Colorado (employer) seeks review of the final order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) upholding an order by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). That order awarded medical impairment benefits to Lindsay Heyer (claimant) based upon a whole person impairment and included a determination that apportionment would be inappropriate. We affirm.

Claimant sustained an admitted low back injury in 1998. Previously, he had suffered a work-related low back injury in 1991 and a reinjury to his back in…