Tag: Causal Connection

Feb 25, 2022

NY Board Errs in Setting Disablement Date for Repetitive Stress Injury

A decision by the New York Workers’ Compensation Board that a claimant should have been aware of the work-related nature of his back pain and injury in June 2017, at...

NY Board Errs in Setting Disablement Date for Repetitive Stress Injury NY Board Errs in Setting Disablement Date for Repetitive Stress Injury
Sep 18, 2020

Cautious Medical Opinion Sinks NY Worker's Knee Injury Claim

Acknowledging that medical opinion evidence need not be expressed with absolute or reasonable medical certainty, but stressing that it nevertheless needed to be based on more than a mere possibility,...

Cautious Medical Opinion Sinks NY Worker's Knee Injury Claim Cautious Medical Opinion Sinks NY Worker's Knee Injury Claim
Nov 3, 2017

MS Worker’s Staph Infection Was Causally Connected to Epidural Injections for Back Injury

Stressing that the weighing of expert medical evidence is the province of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission—and not the appellate courts—the Court of Appeals of Mississippi affirmed a decision awarding...

MS Worker’s Staph Infection Was Causally Connected to Epidural Injections for Back Injury MS Worker’s Staph Infection Was Causally Connected to Epidural Injections for Back Injury
Oct 24, 2013

Virginia: Self-Treatment by Rehab Professor Nixes Benefits for Subsequent Injuries

While Scripture may say, “Physician, heal thyself” [Luke 4:23, King James Version], that advice should apparently be avoided by professors of rehabilitation counseling. In a case replete with irony, the...

Virginia: Self-Treatment by Rehab Professor Nixes Benefits for Subsequent Injuries Virginia: Self-Treatment by Rehab Professor Nixes Benefits for Subsequent Injuries
Jun 5, 2013

Ohio: Supreme Court Reiterates that Mental Injury Must Be Caused By, and Not Merely Contemporaneous With, Physical Injury To Support Comp Claim

In a divided decision affirming a ruling last year by a state intermediate appellate court, the Supreme Court of Ohio has reiterated that in order for a mental condition (here...

Ohio: Supreme Court Reiterates that Mental Injury Must Be Caused By, and Not Merely Contemporaneous With, Physical Injury To Support Comp Claim Ohio: Supreme Court Reiterates that Mental Injury Must Be Caused By, and Not Merely Contemporaneous With, Physical Injury To Support Comp Claim