Bias v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner

McGRAW Justice:

This is an appeal by the claimant from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, dated June 26, 1985, which reversed a ruling of the Workers’ Compensation Commissioner denying the employer’s application for modification of the claimant’s temporary total disability benefits. The claimant asserts that the Appeal Board erred in concluding that his disability was not causally related to his occupational injury. We agree, and we reverse the decision of the Appeal Board.

The claimant was a thirty-year-old coal miner employed by Big Mountain Coals, Inc., when he slipped and…