The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed a decision to deny duloxetine to a claimant who gave inconsistent accounts of her symptoms to several medical providers, finding she had failed to prove that her headaches were caused by a 1999 work injury.Case: Landwehr v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation and Safety Division, No. S-13-0139, 02/21/2014.Facts: Deana Landwehr injured her back while attempting to lift a patient from her wheelchair in August 1999 while working as a nursing assistant at the Cheyenne Health Care Center. Doctors initially found no abnormalities in her spine and ordere...
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