Following an appeal to the Board of industrial insurance appeals, wherein we were able to establish that the claimant’s condition required further treatment, we continued additional adjudication on the file and ultimately prevailed in getting the Department of Labor and industries to accept responsibility for a degenerative hip condition which required surgery/replacement, then we were able to get the Department of Labor and industries to accept responsibility for depression caused by her disability.
Once these two conditions had been formally accepted by the Department we then asked them to go back in time and reconsider periods that they had previously denied benefits. When the department realized that the claimant had been treated for the same conditions over that relevant time period, and based upon certification from her treating sources, we were able to get the department to pay several years of benefits.
