Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Additional Benefits, Treatment for Steelworker

A divided West Virginia Supreme Court upheld a denial of additional benefits and treatment for a steelworker with a history of shoulder injuries. Raymond Hatfield was a steelworker for Huntington Alloys Corp. He injured his left shoulder at work in January 2019. Hatfield had a long history of left shoulder injuries and surgeries predating this incident. A magnetic resonance imaging scan from 2012 showed a posterior superior labrum tear with a paralabral cyst extending into the spinoglenoid notch, likely causing denervation and decreased signal to the teres minor muscle. Another MRI from 20...