Supreme Court Upholds Permanent Partial Disability Award for Worker With Cervical Spine Injury

The West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a worker was entitled to a 5% permanent partial disability award for a cervical spine injury. Richard Thomas worked for Ramaco Resources LLC. He injured his cervical spine when he fell off of a rock loader at work in February 2018. A cervical X-ray performed that day showed minor degenerative disc disease at C6-7. A magnetic resonance imaging scan taken about a month later showed multilevel degenerative changes and disc disease causing central canal and neural foraminal narrowing. Dr. Prasadarao Mukkamala performed an independent medical evaluation...