Armitage v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge FRIEDMAN.

Robert Armitage (Claimant) petitions for review of the June 9, 2003, order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB), which affirmed the order of the workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) to *517deny Claimant’s claim petition. We vacate and remand.

In May of 2001, Claimant filed a claim petition in which he alleged that he sustained a work-related injury on August 31, 1999, in the nature of plantar fasciitis.1 (WCJ’s Findings of Fact, Nos. 1, 7; R.R. at 1.) Gurtler Chemicals (Employer), through its insurer CNA, filed a timely answer denying the material allegations in…