Coon Rapids, MN
Workers compensation Lawyer at Coon Rapids, MN
Practice Areas: Workers Compensation, Social Security ... +7 more
OUTCOME: Prevailed
Substantial evidence in the record, including testimony of the employee, records, reports, and testimony of the QRC, and the report and testimony of a vocational expert, supports the compensation judge ... ’s conclusion that the employee is a candidate for retraining and that the proposed retraining plan is reasonable.
OUTCOME: Prevailed
Substantial evidence, including the employee’s testimony and adequately founded medical expert opinion, supports the compensation judge’s determination that the February 17, 2012, incident at work was ... a substantial contributing cause of the employee’s SI joint condition and a permanent aggravation of her preexisting lumbar spine condition.
OUTCOME: Employee's Prior Stipulation was Vacated
VACATION OF AWARD - SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE IN CONDITION. The employee has established an unanticipated and substantial change in medical condition sufficient to constitute cause to vacate an Award on Stip ... ulation issued on September 11, 1992.
OUTCOME: Prevailed
CAUSATION - MEDICAL TREATMENT; CAUSATION - TEMPORARY AGGRAVATION; CAUSATION - PRE-EXISTING CONDITION. Despite the lack of a specific anatomical diagnosis and the employee’s pre-existing multiple scler ... osis, there is substantial evidence, including medical opinions, to support the compensation judge’s conclusion that the medical treatment at issue is reasonable, necessary, and causally related to the employee’s work injury.
OUTCOME: Prevailed
Substantial evidence supported the compensation judge’s conclusion that the employee’s automobile accident occurred when she was on her way from her doctor’s office to obtain prescription medication re ... lated to her original work injury, and, under these circumstances, the compensation judge did not err in concluding that the injuries the employee sustained in the automobile accident were a compensable consequence of her work injury.
OUTCOME: Prevailed
Where the judge accepted the testimony of the employee and her QRC that the employee had fully cooperated with her rehabilitation plan and had conducted a diligent job search for sixteen months, and wh ... ere the judge had noted that the nurse employee was sixty years old and was competing for jobs against much younger candidates with better nursing credentials in a very difficult job market, the compensation judge’s conclusion that the employee was unlikely to find work for an indefinite period of time, and so had demonstrated permanent total disability, was not clearly erroneous and unsupported by substantial evidence.
OUTCOME: Prevailed
Where, in their NOID, the employer and insurer had themselves raised the issue of causation of the cyst in the employee’s hip by referring to it as “a personal health condition” basic to the employee’s ... refusal of the employer’s job offer, the compensation judge could not fully address the NOID without resolving that causation issue in addition to the reasonable refusal issue, and the employer and insurer could not argue on appeal that they were prejudiced by the judge’s findings on the causation issue as an improper expansion of issues in an expedited hearing.
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