The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals ruled that a truck driver was entitled to have his employer cover the cost of a hip replacement surgery after his workplace fall, even though his doctors had told him he would need to have a hip replacement because of his preexisting and non-industrial degenerative joint disease.
Case: Estenson Logistics v. Hopson, No. 113572, 09/24/2015, published.
Facts: Ray Vinson Hopson slipped and fell while working for Estenson Logistics in February 2014.
Doctors determined he had an acute fracture of the left femoral head, and that Hopson needed a hip replacement.
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