FAIRWAY TRANSPORTATION, INC. v. Brewer

Banke, Presiding Judge.

The claimant in this workers’ compensation case sustained a compensable neck injury on January 18, 1987, while employed as a truck driver. He received total disability benefits for the injury until April 25, 1987, when the payments were suspended by the employer for the stated reason that he had been “released to return to work 2/ 27/87 full duty.” Following a change-in-condition hearing held at the claimant’s request, an administrative law judge determined that the claimant’s current symptoms were attributable to a pre-existing condition rather than to his work-related…