Appellate Court's Diabetes Case a Rare One, Attorneys Say

The question of whether a work-related injury "lit up" a worker's undiagnosed diabetes will give the 2nd District Court of Appeal a chance to issue a decision in a case with a rare set of circumstances pertaining to the aggravation of a very common pre-existing condition.Attorneys on both sides of the bar said that while applicants' attorneys do make arguments that a work-related injury "lit up," or exacerbated, a pre-existing condition such as diabetes, they added that such factual circumstances are a relative rarity in California's workers' compensation system. Those facts mo...