An Ohio appellate court upheld a jury’s determination that a worker was entitled to expand the scope of his workers’ compensation claim to include a diagnosis for post-concussion syndrome.
Case: Somerick v. YRC Worldwide Inc., No. 29239, 05/13/2020, published.
Facts and procedural history: John P. Somerick III worked for YRC Wordwide Inc. In August 2016, he was struck in the head by a deck bar.
Somerick filed a workers’ compensation claim, and the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation allowed it for several conditions.
Somerick later requested that the BWC allow...
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