The West Virginia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a worker with preexisting conditions was not entitled to a larger award of permanent partial disability benefits without any apportionment to his prior diagnoses.
Case: Lilly v. Raleigh County Board of Education, No. 21-0814, 05/02/2023, published.
Facts: Robert W. Lilly Jr. worked for the Raleigh County Board of Education. In May 2019, he was diagnosed with spinal enthesopathy of the cervical region and left carpal tunnel syndrome.
Lilly filed a report alleging an injury occurred on July 24, 2019. He reported that he injured his neck w...
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