He wanted to receive the care without having to file either a plan for continuing and multiple treatments as required by AS 23.30.095 2 or additional claims of injury. Steffey sought continued chiropractic treatment for the aggravation of his old injury at an Alaska Workers' Compensation Board hearing in May 1995. The Municipality paid for chiropractic treatments that were more frequent than the guidelines permit until April 1995, when it controverted his claims. He standards for payment for frequency of outpatient treatment for the injury will be as follows ․ payment for a course of treatment for the injury may not exceed more than three treatments per week for the first month, two treatments per week for the second and third months, one treatment per week for the fourth and fifth months, and one treatment per month for the sixth through twelfth months. The Municipality's obligation to pay for Steffey's chiropractic care is governed by the following regulation: The Municipality paid for all of Steffey's chiropractic care until April 1995. James Martin, who treated Steffey for four and one-half years. Steffey sought palliative chiropractic care from Dr. Nevertheless, Steffey continued to complain that driving aggravated his injury. He returned to work in October 1992, and the Municipality installed a new seat in his truck. Soon after he returned to work, Steffey suffered a second work-related injury on Jand again stopped working. Upon his return he complained that sitting in his truck seat aggravated his injury because it offered him no lumbar support. Steffey suffered a work-related injury on February 20, 1992, damaging his right shoulder and lower back while wrenching some garbage free from his truck's trailer. The job requires him to drive a garbage truck and trailer between the refuse transfer station in South Anchorage and the Eagle River landfill. The Municipality of Anchorage has employed Robert Steffey as a Refuse Disposal Utility III worker since 1988. Because the employer presented substantial evidence that work did not aggravate Steffey's symptoms, we affirm the Board's decision denying Steffey benefits. Steffey filed numerous reports of injury complaining that work had aggravated his condition. Robert Steffey suffered two work-related injuries in 1992 and received chiropractic care regularly until 1995, at which point his employer controverted his claims. Decided: April 28, 2000īefore EASTAUGH, FABE, BRYNER, and CARPENETI, Justices.Ĭharles W. MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE, and Ward North America, Inc., formerly known as Scott Wetzel Services, Inc., Appellees.
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