Source: https://wcc.state.ct.us/crb/1994/1675crb.htm
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 06:07:13+00:00

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The claimant was represented by Richard D. Haviland, Esq., and Warren Miller, Esq., Rakosky, Smith, Miller & Papp, P.C., 71 Granite Street, New London, CT 06320. She also appeared pro se.
The respondents were represented by Jason M. Dodge, Esq. and Lucas D. Strunk, Esq., Pomeranz, Drayton & Stabnick, 95 Glastonbury Blvd., Glastonbury, CT 06033-4412.
This Petition for Review from the March 9, 1993 Finding and Award of the Commissioner for the Second District was heard March 25, 1994 before a Compensation Review Board panel consisting of the Commission Chairman Jesse Frankl and Commissioners Angelo L. dos Santos and Nancy A. Brouillet.
“The issue of the causal relationship between the  workplace injury and the claimant’s later back problems was the subject of divergent medical opinion. Where the medical evidence was in conflict, the trial commissioner’s conclusion must stand so long as there is evidence to support it. Pulcinella v. Prudential Insurance Company, 10 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 251, 1236 CRD-6-91-5 (1993).” Dusto v. Rogers Corporation, 1496 CRB-1-92-8 (decided February 4, 1994). Here, the commissioner obviously gave greater weight to those witnesses and that evidence which, for the most part, discounted a causal relationship between the claimant’s numerous medical complaints, including her back condition which ultimately led to surgical intervention, and her February 8, 1980 compensable injury.
We may not disturb the commissioner’s conclusions which are dependent on the weight and credibility accorded the evidence. Goodrow v. W.J. Barney Corporation, 11 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 207, 1315 CRD-2-91-9 (1993); Neal v. UTC/Pratt & Whitney, 10 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 163, 1199 CRD-8-91-3 (1992). It is the trial commissioner, as the trier of facts, who determines with finality the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be accorded their testimony. Fletcher v. UTC/Pratt & Whitney, 11 Conn. Workers’ Comp. Rev. Op. 182, 1322 CRD-8-91-10 (1993), quoting Miller v. Kirshner, 225 Conn. 185, 198 (1993), and State v. Robinson, 213 Conn. 243, 256 (1989). Because the conclusions drawn by the trial commissioner from the facts found did not result from an incorrect application of the law or from an inference illegally or unreasonably drawn from the subordinate facts, the commissioner’s conclusion must stand. Fair v. People’s Savings Bank, 207 Conn. 535, 539 (1988).

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