Helen Jordan v. Department of Health and Human Services

Summary

The Court held that the administrative record was too incomplete to permit meaningful appellate review of whether Helen Jordan’s opioid-related loss of wage-earning capacity was a disability traceable to her workplace injury. The magistrate and commission failed to make or identify sufficient factual findings regarding both the existence of disability and the causal connection between the injury, its treatment, and the alleged disability. The Court vacated the lower decisions and remanded for further administrative proceedings and factual development.