Independent Intervening Cause Principle Inapplicable if Employee Suffers Only Increase in Pain

The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel ruled that if a worker’s activity results in an increase in pain but there is no new injury or aggravation of a prior compensable injury, the independent intervening cause principle is not applicable to relieve the original employer of liability. Case: Paris v. McKee Foods Corp., No. E2020-00358-SC-R3-WC, 02/16/2021, published. Facts and procedural history: Latoya Paris worked for McKee Foods Corp. as a palletizer. She injured her left wrist while at work in October 2005. McKee accepted the injury...