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PROBLEM WITH RIGHT KNEE RULED PART OF COMPENSABLE INJURY.
Business Insurance, September, 1999
An employee's right knee injury arising out of a work-related injury to her left knee was a compensable industrial injury, according to the Supreme Court of Nevada. Edna Hayes sustained an industrial injury to her left knee in 1979. Subsequently, she developed an antalgic (pain-avoiding) limp causing problems in her right knee.
She sought treatment of her right knee for pain and other physical problems relating to her right knee. She also sought workers compensation benefits for a work-related injury to her right knee. An appeals officer awarded her benefits; however, a trial court reversed that decision. The state Supreme Court concluded that Ms. Hayes' right knee injury was compensable as a new, late-developing manifestation of an earlier work-related...
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