Randolph County, Missouri v. Tammy Moore-Ransdell

ALOK AHUJA, Judge.

The Labor and Industrial Relations Commission concluded that a workplace accident in which Tammy Moore-Ransdell squatted and twisted to reach into a low, over-filled filing cabinet drawer was the prevailing factor causing her permanent partial disability. Because I believe this conclusion is unsupported by sufficient competent evidence in the record considered as a whole, I respectfully dissent from affirmance of the Commission’s final award.

As the majority explains, when competing medical causation testimony is presented, it is the Commission’s prerogative to choose which…