Supreme Court Clarifies Process for Rating Impairment

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that an administrative law judge properly limited her discussion of controlling law for defining an “active” or “dormant” pre-existing condition when a worker’s condition did not fall into either category. Case: Wetherby v. Amazon.com, No. 2018-SC-000542-WC, 08/29/2019, published. Facts: Samuel Wetherby worked for Amazon.com as a warehouse associate. While he was moving a box at work in October 2012, Wetherby felt a shooting pain run from his neck down his right arm, and his hand went numb. Doctors diagnosed him with a disk...