The California Supreme Court last week denied review of two workers' compensation cases, one which denied an award of benefits to a worker for the loss of her eye.
Cynthia Krause filed a comp claim after she lost her right eye in 2007 because of a blood-borne infection. The agreed medical evaluator in her case said the infection was most likely from her use of a feeding tube after undergoing gastric bypass surgery in 2006.
Krause argued that this made her infection a compensable consequence of her 2000 industrial knee injury, since she had gained over 100 pounds after injuring her knee, ...
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