Patriots Bank v. Black River Motel, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a claimant is not entitled to permanent partial disability when the workplace injury is not a material contributing cause of the finding of loss
• holding that a claim- ant is not entitled to permanent partial disability when the workplace injury is not a material contributing cause of the finding of loss
• explaining that to qualify as impairment, the loss of use or function of the body part or system must be “due to the compensable injury” (emphasis added; internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[B]ased on the evidence in the record and the ALJ’s findings, no part of the claimant’s [loss of use or function findings in dispute] could be attributed to the accepted con- dition.” (Emphasis added.)
• “Review of the medical arbiter’s determination and the record makes clear that claimant’s reduced range of motion and decreased stability in her right knee was not caused in material part, or in any part, by the compensable injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).