The Kentucky Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits to a cable maintenance technician based on the combined effects of his physical injuries, psychological condition, age and vocational status.
Case: Time Warner Cable v. Smith, No. 2020-SC-0580-WC, 10/28/2021, published.
Facts: Ricky Smith has a 12th-grade education and worked for years for Time Warner Cable as a maintenance technician. His job required climbing, lifting, pulling, pushing, stretching, crawling, carrying and bending.
Smith felt a popping sensation in his back while carrying a ladder for work in August 2015, and he collaps...
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