Rating Without Absolute Medical Certainty OK

Reasonable doubt about whether an accident aggravated a pre-existing condition is to be construed in favor of the employee, according to a ruling by Tennessee's Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel at Nashville. "In determining medical causation for a workers' compensation action, any reasonable doubt regarding causation of the injury is to be construed in favor of the workers' compensation claimant (citation)," the panel wrote in Timmons v. Taylor Farms Tennessee,, M2006-00073-WC-R3-CV, 03/16/2007. "Even in cases where the evidence allows inferences which could support either party...