01/26/21
Jane Salem
What a year! The memes abound about 2020, most of which contain language or images unsuitable for this forum. (Here are a few from
But regardless of last year s tragedies, disruptions of our work and personal activities, and social and political unrest … we rather quietly and doggedly continued doing what we do here in the Court of Workers Compensation Claims and the Appeals Board. We heard or reviewed cases, and we wrote opinions.
Us last year…
So, what follows is my annual January recap of the past year s Appeals Board opinions, broken into two parts. In this post, we ll review the opinions about jurisdiction, medical causation, referrals, mechanism of injury, and witness credibility. In the next article, we ll revisit cases on, well, everything else. We ll finish up the month with a look back at Supreme Court Panel cases.