Riggs v. Goodrich

How courts have described this case

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• awarding compensation even though back injury stabilized prior to second injury
• awarding compensation even though back injury stabilized prior to second injury
• employer responsible for first work-related injury not accountable for progression of injury if second, independent incident occurs
• if the worker’s underlying condition has stabilized at the time of the accident, the subsequent accident is more likely to be beyond the range of compensable consequences
• where issue is within the province of medical experts, master required to identify the consideration which impelled decision to disregard uncontradicted medical testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).