TWCA Reviews Whether Employee's Neck Injury was Compensable

ROBIN BAKER v. A & L INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE, INC. (TWCA March 7, 2011)

The employee sustained a compensable injury to her left wrist. She alleged that she also sustained a neck injury as a result of the same incident. The employer denied the neck claim. The employee's evaluating physician expressed somewhat contradictory opinions regarding the causal relationship between the work incident and her neck injury. The trial court held that the employee had a compensable neck injury in addition to her wrist injury and awarded benefits accordingly. The employer has appealed that finding. We affirm the judgment.

Opinion available at:
http://www.tba2.org/tba_files/TSC_WCP/2011/bakerr.pdf