Allen & Rocks, Inc. v. Briggs

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• recognizing that a change in physician can be justified if the new physician’s “suggested care would be more appropriate and productive”
• holding that pain caused over time by the employee’s altered gait from his back injury was a compensable consequence of the original injury by accident, even though an injury caused by cumulative trauma does not require primary coverage under the Workers’ Compensation Act
• noting that the reports of “Dr. Joiner and Dr. Hodges established that claimant suffered knee pain secondary to and as a consequence of his failed back syndrome” (emphasis added)
• knee pain caused by gait deviations resulting directly from compensable back injury constituted compensable consequence of original back injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).