Vail v. North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau

NEUMANN, Justice.

Viola Vail appealed from a district court judgment affirming an order of the North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau denying her claim for continued payment of chiropractic treatments for a work-related injury. We conclude the Bureau’s finding that continued chiropractic treatments are neither reasonable nor medically necessary to treat Vail’s injury is supported by a preponderance of the evidence, and we affirm.

During March 1982, Vail injured her back while employed as a housekeeper at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo. She filed a claim for workers compensation benefits, and…