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· 6/12/1997

Getson v. WM BANCORP

Citations

  • 694 A.2d 961
  • 346 Md. 48
  • 1997 Md. LEXIS 74

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that often evaluating physicians provide “an assessment of medical impairment” to assist the finder of fact in determining the degree of disability
  • “The Commission must do more than merely adopt medical evaluations of anatomical impairment; the Commission must assess the extent of the loss of use by considering how the injury has affected the employee’s ability to do his or her job.”
  • “The Commission must do more than merely adopt medical evaluations of anatomical impairment; the Commission must assess the extent of the loss of use by considering how the injury has affected 23 the employee‟s ability to do his or her job.”
  • For compensability, “[t]he Commission must do more than merely adopt medical evaluations of anatomical impairment; the Commission must assess the extent of the loss of use by considering how the injury has affected the employee’s ability to do his or her job”
  • shoulder is not part of arm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bell, Eldridge, Rodowsky, Chasanow, Karwacki, Raker, Murphy

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