05/27/2015
Appeals explained that under Mississippi law when a worker's injury is established as compensable "every natural consequence that flows from the injury likewise arises out of the employment unless it is the result of an independent intervening cause attributable to claimant's own intentional conduct
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12/17/2020
psychiatric injury that is a compensable consequence of an orthopedic injury. In his report and recommendation on her petition the WCJ discounted the precedential value of the Board panel decision on which McCullough relied Rebelo v. Washington Hospital 1999 SJ 195868 27 Cal. Workers' Comp. Rptr. 159
Category: Cases
10/27/2009
By Michael LeClercLast week October 13 2009 the 4th District Court of Appeal held that there are reasonable geographical limits to an employer's liability for compensable consequence claims.In Esquivel v. WCAB the injured worker resided in San Diego. After
Category: Industry Insights
11/13/2015
a compensable consequence of an industrial injury. The court said the commission erred in adopting a blanket rule that requires the claimant to have entered his vehicle for him to be deemed to be within the course of travel to the doctor's office.
The standard is just that the injuries must have
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07/23/2010
... what you have in hand is what you have. Only the body parts in the Finding & AwardOrder.
quote1e1cmq02You state "As I said if you are seeking medical treatment as a '' compensable consequence'' I am using the term sequella. Are they the same thing IYHO And yes I am to your question
Category: Forums
05/18/2015
evaluator in her case said the infection was most likely from her use of a feeding tube after undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 2006.
Krause argued that this made her infection a compensable consequence of her 2000 industrial knee injury since she had gained over 100 pounds after injuring her knee
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06/05/2011
causedaggravated right knee
...arthritic condition requiring treatment as a compensable consequence b2qtvqrerPirelli
...Armstrong Tire VAN ZANT 68 CCC 970b2qtvqrer; same result upper extremities injured
...and over 5 years later back and hepatitis C were ordered treated as compensable
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07/05/2010
body part meet the AOECOE standard you are eligible for treatment and '' compensable consequence'' injury based on the PTP reasoning and provision of substantive EBM to support it. Treatment guides and UR process...as well as PQME "dance"... hearing if necessary.
The minimization of the
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09/28/2012
Hi doctor & ozzie
Everything you say is correct. However there are some finer points of distinction that need to be made. You are zeroing in on the the sort of "fuzzy grey zone" of causation and compensable consequence. Psychiatric interplay is a little different than
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09/01/2007
" Joint Findings and Award of June 202007 wherein it was found that applicant sustained an injury to her left shoulder in case GOL 0097493 as a compensable consequence of an admitted June 9 1999 industrial injury to her right shoulder entitling the applicant to reimbursement for self-procured medical
Category: Panel