Tattoo v. Barrett Business Service

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that set aside the referee’s award of attorney fees and a penalty, that reinstated and upheld employer’s denials of temporary total disability and of chiropractic treatment, and that reversed the referee’s award of unscheduled permanent disability. We affirm.

The Board found that claimant injured his lower back on August 1, 1989. He filed a claim for a lumbosacral sprain, which employer accepted. After months of chiropractic therapy failed to relieve claimant’s back pain, his treating physician performed an MRI test. The test…