York-Gunning v. St. John's Hospital

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 20, 2008, which ruled that claimant did not voluntarily withdraw from the labor market.

Claimant, an emergency medical technician, suffered a compensable injury to her left hand in 2003. She returned to work shortly thereafter, but stopped working in 2005 and was found to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome that was causally linked to her hand injury. As claimant remained capable of working in some capacity, the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier argued that she had voluntarily removed herself from the labor…