HICKS v. STATE EX REL. WORKERS' SAFETY & COMPENSATION DIVISION

No. 04-2.

105 P.3d 462 (2005)

2005 WY 11

Irene HICKS, Appellant (Employee/Petitioner), v. STATE of Wyoming, ex rel., WYOMING WORKERS' SAFETY AND COMPENSATION DIVISION, Appellee (Objector/Respondent).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

February 4, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Representing Appellant: Donald Lee Tolin, Law Offices of Donald Tolin, Casper, Wyoming.

Representing Appellee: Patrick J. Crank, Wyoming Attorney General; John W. Renneisen, Deputy Attorney General, Steven R. Czoschke, Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Kristi M. Radosevich, Assistant Attorney General. Argument by Ms. Radosevich.

Before HILL, C.J., and GOLDEN, LEHMAN, KITE, and VOIGT, JJ.


HILL, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] Irene Hicks (Hicks) appeals from an order of the Workers' Compensation Medical Commission (the Medical Commission) denying her request for worker's compensation benefits for a September 2001 spinal fusion surgery that, she claimed, was the product of a work-related injury she suffered in July 1998. The Medical Commission concluded that Hicks was not a credible witness, and that she had failed in her burden of proving causation, as substantial...

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