Worker in Need of Surgery Can't Reopen Claim for Prior Knee Injury

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that an injured worker was not entitled to reopen her workers’ compensation claim for a knee injury, since she failed to prove that her need for surgery was related to her prior accident. Case: Torres v. Industrial Commission, No. 1 CA-IC 17-0053, 07/17/2018, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Mary Torres worked for the Canteen Corp. as a janitor. She slipped and fell while washing debris off floor mats at the back of a loading dock in June 1987. Torres went to the emergency room, where X-rays of her left knee were taken. She was placed in a ...