Claim of Forbes v. American Airlines

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 21, 2003, which denied claimant’s application for reconsideration and/or full Board review of a prior decision ruling that claimant had no further causally related disability after November 5, 1998.

Claimant injured his neck in the course of his employment as a baggage handler in December 1996 and was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. Subsequently, the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier controverted the claim. Following several telephone depositions, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge found that, based on…