Hopkins v. SAIF Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a “combined condition is compensable only if the compen- sable injury is the major contributing cause of the disabil- ity or need for treatment”
• interpreting the statutory term “arthritis” using Webster’s Third New Int’l Dictionary and medical dictionaries that were in use when the statutory provision was enacted
• describing a \compensable injury\ as proven by a \material contributing cause\ standard
• “To establish a ‘compensable injury,’ the worker must prove that a work-related injury is a material contributing cause of a disability or need for treatment.”
• “Whether one expert is more persuasive than another in a particular case can be important in resolving a factual question; it cannot, however, determine the legal meaning of a statutory term.”
• “To establish a 'compensable injury,’ the worker must prove that a work-related injury is a material contributing cause of a disability or need for treatment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).