High Court Expands Heightened Causation Test to New Conditions

By Sherri OkamotoLegal ReporterThe Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the two-step causation analysis applicable to workers' compensation claims involving injuries from heart attacks was properly extended to apply to a worker's claim based on an episode of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. In heart attack cases, the court explained, a claimant is required to prove both legal and medical causation a tougher burden than is required for other types of injury because of the inherent difficulties in attributing the cause of a heart attack to a person's work.&nbs...