Employer Liable for Cumulative Trauma even if Symptoms began before Hiring Claimant

A dentist and her insurance carrier are liable for benefits and medical care to a hygienist for her work-related cumulative trauma neck injury, even though the hygienist's symptoms and treatment had started long before she started working for the dentist, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The law in Nebraska for cumulative trauma injuries is that they become compensable once the employee has sought medical treatment, and missed work due to the injury. So even though Barbara Potter suspected that her neck pain had something to do with her job as early as 2007 and reported he...