The claimant brought a LAT application to dispute NEBs and his MIG designation. Adjudicator Flude found that the claimant was not entitled to NEBs because he had failed to submit a signed application for NEBs until June 8, 2020, approximately a year after the accident of July 16, 2019. Adjudicator Flude confirmed that an application for NEBs could not be considered complete until a signed OCF-3 has been submitted. The claimant was found to be ineligible for NEBs in the period following the submission of his application because he failed to respond to a s. 33 request issued by the insurer. Adjudicator Flude also found that the claimant’s injuries fell within the MIG. The claimant had failed to report his significant pre-accident history with his medical examiners, which rendered their diagnoses regarding his impairments unreliable. The Adjudicator noted that the claimant’s medical records reflected an improvement of his symptoms from July 2019 to November 2019. He drew an adverse inference from the claimant’s failure to produce further medical records after November 2019 and opined that the records would have reflected an improvement of the claimant’s symptoms. Adjudicator Flude concluded that the claimant did not suffer from chronic pain syndrome as a result of the accident and that his injuries were minor in nature.
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