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It is often said that just as the “instantaneous nature of an observed causal progression is a familiar element in cases dispensing with medical testimony, so a delay between the accident and the symptoms, disability or death diminishes any such self-evident causal relation [Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 128.05]. Accordingly, an Ohio appellate court recently affirmed a trial court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of an employer where the only available medical evidence was in the form of office notes by a treating physician who did not see the injured worker until more than a month following the alleged incident and the notes did not speak to a causal connection between the injury and the work.
Reported by Thomas A. Robinson, J.D.
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See Jimmison v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Auth., 2013 Ohio 3155, 2013 Ohio App. LEXIS 3202 (July 18, 2013) [2013 Ohio App. LEXIS 3202 (July 18, 2013)]
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 128.05 [128.05]
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law.
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