McDonald v. State — Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds Denial of Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Depakote-Induced Pancreatitis
The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed the Medical Commission’s denial of workers’ compensation benefits to a claimant who developed pancreatitis after a Depakote dosage increase prescribed for migraines caused by his 2014 compensable head injury, holding that a numerical majority of supporting experts does not satisfy the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard and that the Commission acted within its discretion in rejecting an expert’s causation opinion premised on a dosing timeline contradicted by the claimant’s own testimony.