DeBoard v. Meyer

FLYNN, J. pro tempore

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that upheld employer’s denials of her claim that employer add to her accepted 2012 injury claim the new or omitted condition of disc “protrusions” in the thoracic spine. The board adopted the determination of the administrative law judge (ALJ) that claimant’s undisputed disc pathology of the thoracic spine was a degenerative disc “bulges” condition that is not “equivalent” to disc “protrusions,” and that claimant, therefore, failed to prove the existence of the claimed condition. Claimant argues that the…