Worker With Capacity for Sedentary Employment Can't Get PTD Award

An Ohio appellate court upheld a denial of permanent total disability benefits for a worker who retained the capacity for sedentary employment. Case: State ex rel. Mignella v. Industrial Commission, No. 22AP-155, 11/09/2023, published. Facts: Mary Mignella worked for the Warren City School District Board of Education. She suffered multiple injuries in a workplace fall in March 2011. Chiropractor Denise M. Carradine examined Mignella in December 2014 and opined that she had a 69% permanent physical impairment of the body as a whole, leaving her unable to work. Dr. Karen Gade-Pulido examined...