Failure to Notify Doctors of Intervening Injury Leads to Denial of RSD

A claimant's failure to tell her medical providers about an intervening injury ultimately doomed her secondary claim for reflex sympathetic dystrophy, according to a decision from Ohio's 8th District Court of Appeals. Case: Jolette v. A T L M, et al., No. 99173.Facts: Nicole Jolette suffered a work-related broken ankle while employed by A T L M in 1999. Doctors inserted metal plates and screws into her ankle to stabilize the injury, and eventually removed the plates and screws when Jolette's pain did not cease. By September 2000, her surgeon noted that she "is doing well in therapy...