Lane Co., Inc. v. Saunders

How courts have described this case

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• herniated disc diagnosed after unusual repetitive heavy lifting followed by gradually developing pain; not compensable because no accident, identifiable incident, or sudden precipitating event shown
• the evidence must establish whether the injury “developed suddenly, or was gradually incurred and cumulative, becoming painful only on [the day the alleged injury occurred]”
• injury is “ ‘an obvious sudden mechanical or structural change in the body1 ”
• herniated disc diagnosed after unusual repetitive heavy lifting followed by gradually developing pain; not compensable because no accident, identifiable incident, or sudden precipitating event shown
• injury is “‘an obvious sudden mechanical or structural change in the body’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).