VOLUME XV, ISSUE 6                                                          November/December 1996

IN THIS ISSUE

- CASE NOTES

• -Aggravation: Symptomatic Worsening - No Prior PPD Award
• -Attorney Fee: Responsibility Denial - "Extraordinary Circumstances"
• -CDA: Impossible "Contingent" Event
• -Claim Processing: "New Medical Condition" Claim - Must Precede Hearing Request
• -Claim Processing: "New Medical Condition" Claim - Retroactively Applicable
• -Claim Processing: "In Lieu Of" Provision in Recon Order - Pertains to Determination Order Award
• -Consequential Condition: "Stroke" Due to Diagnostic Scan
• -Course & Scope: Fall on "Icy" Employer-Leased Parking Lot
• -Course & Scope: Supervisor Assault During Business Trip
• -Course & Scope: Travelling Employee - Distinct Departure
• -Extent: Evidence- "283(7)" Limitation N/A - Vocational Consultant Testimony Under "287(1)"
• -Extent: Impeachment Evidence - Inadmissible if Not in "Recon Record"
• -Extent: "Party Solicited Pre-Recon" Arbiter Report Admissible ("283(7)") But Not Considered for Impairment Findings Under "268(7)"
• -Extent: "Post-ATP" NOC - "MS" Pre-SB 369 - No "Recon" Required - No "283(7)" Evidentiary Limitation
• -Extent: "Supplemental Post-Recon" Arbiter Report - Admissible Under "268(6)(e)" Exception to "283(7)"
• -Jurisdiction: No Review Authority Over Director's Order Denying Recon
• -Medical Services: "225" N/A-Not Solely Directed to Preexisting Condition
• -Objective Findings: Legal, Not Medical, Term
• -PPD Rate: Arising From Closure - Raise During "Recon"
• -Pre-Closure Denial: "262(7)(b)" - Applies to Accepted "Combined Condition"
• -Preexisting Condition: "225" - Medical Services "Solely Directed" - Injury Must Be The Major Cause of Pathological Worsening
• -Premature Denial: Arbiter Report - Not "Claim"
• -Premature Denial: No "New Medical Condition" Claim
• -Subject Worker: "Temporary Workplace" - Interstate Agreement
• -Subject Worker: Volunteer Coach - "031" Coverage
• -Third Party Settlement: No "Paying Agency" Approval - Void
• -TTD: "262(4)(f)" Limit on "Retro" Time Loss - N/A to Substantive TTD
• -TTD: Modified Job Terminated - Unpaid Union Dues - Not a Withdrawal of Job Offer

-Appellate Decisions

Update

• -Course & Scope: Injury Helping Potential Patron
• -Course & Scope: Traveling Employee
• -Subject Employer: Normal / Customary - Trade / Business

-Court of Appeals

• -Aggravation: "Actual Worsening" - Increased Symptoms Insufficient Pathological Worsening Required
• -Attorney Fee: Stip Withdraws Claim Objection
• -Claim Preclusion: Failure to Contest Final "Noncomp" PPD Award
• -Claim Preclusion: Prior Stipulation - Effect Depends on Parties' Intent
• -Claim Processing: Erroneous "Recon" Award - If no Substantive Entitlement - Board W/O Authority to Award Overpayment
• -Extent: Impairment Findings - "Pre-MS" Evidence may be Considered
• -Extent: Vision Loss - Monocular Impairment - Double Vision
• -Offset: Precluded by Unappealed "NOC" - Atty Fee - Defense to Offset Request
• -Responsibility: "New Compensable Injury" - Major (Primary) Cause - Not Just Precipitating Cause

-Board News

• -Member Christian Resignation
• -Subscription Notice

-Also Included

• -1996 Claimant Index
• -1996 Subject Index

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