Man wins LAP-BAND Surgery in Workers’ Comp Case
Friday August 14 2009posted by Adam - Total Comments: 0
An Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that a pizza shop must pay for an injured employee's LAP-BAND Surgery. Read a full article about the story at Courthouse News Service.
The man weighed 340 lbs when a freezer door accidentally hit him, and he fell while at work. While recovering from the painful injury, the man gained an extra 380 lbs, putting him over the safe limit for the back surgery he needed. The court ruled that because his weight before the accident and recovery would not necessarily have excluded him from the surgery he needed that there was a cause-effect relationship between his injury and his need for a LAP-BAND Surgery.
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