Worker With Ankle Injury Can Expand Claim to Include CRPS

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld the expansion of a worker’s claim to include complex regional pain syndrome. Case: Department of Agriculture v. Pieretti, No. 1454 C.D. 2021, 08/22/2023, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Summer Pieretti worked for the Department of Agriculture. In August 2017, she sustained a left ankle injury when a car backed into her and pinned her foot between the curb and the car.  The department accepted liability for an ankle contusion. In April 2018, Pieretti underwent surgery with Dr. Elaine Nasser to repair tendons in he...