Koester v. State Ins. Fund

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• employee's Lyme disease was likely caused by ticks present in her own home
• employee’s Lyme disease was likely caused by ticks present in her own home
• whether injury arose out of and in the course of employment is question of fact where appellant challenged only factual findings underlying Commission’s conclusion that injury did not occur within course of claimant’s employment
• whether injury arose out of and in the course of employment is question of fact where appellant challenged only factual findings underlying Commission's conclusion that injury did not occur within course of claimant's employment
• “While the Workers’ Compensation Act is to be construed liberally in favor of the injured employee, a claimant has the burden of proving a probable, not merely a possible, causal connection between the employment and the injury or disease.” (internal citation omitted)
• contraction of Lyme disease not compensable because claimant did not provide sufficient evidence establishing that she received a tick bite, which allegedly caused the disease, in the course of her employment even though she noticed a bite mark on her ankle while at work

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).