Leonard v. Arnold

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the claimant sustained a compensable new injury when, while on crutches for his original compensable heel injury, he caught the crutches on metal trim on a flight of stairs and fell, injuring his back, shoulders, and neck
• distinguishing a new and separate injury “from a progression, deterioration, or aggravation of -6- the injury sustained in the original industrial accident[,]” which constitutes a “change in condition”
• reversing an award for compensable consequence where the employer had timely notice of the new injury but the claimant did not timely file an application with the Commission for the new injury
• requiring a claimant who fell because of the crutches claimant needed due to the original, compensable injury to give notice of the new and separate causally related injury
• “When a primary injury under the Work[ers]’s Compensation Act is shown to have arisen out of the course of employment, every natural consequence that flows from the injury is compensable if it is a direct and natural result of [the] primary injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).