Rose v. John Deere Ottumwa Works

How courts have described this case

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

• describing a full-responsibility rule that if a preexisting condition was “aggravated, accelerated, worsened or ‘lighted up’” by the injury the employee was entitled to recover
• describing a full-responsibility rule that if a preexisting condition was “aggravated, accelerated, worsened or ‘lighted up’ ” by the injury the employee was entitled to recover
• affirming a workers’ compensation award despite a defendant’s causation challenge where a plaintiff had trouble with his back only after a particular event, and where his doctor said the event was the possible cause of the plaintiffs back trouble
• although Iowa workers’ compensation law allows no compensation for results of preexisting condition, claimant is to be compensated for disability resulting from aggravation of preexisting condition because of work-related injury
• “If plaintiff was diseased and his condition was aggravated, accelerated, worsened or ‘lighted up’ by the injury so it resulted in the disability found to exist plaintiff was entitled to recover.”
• “If plaintiff was diseased and his condition was aggravated, accelerated, worsened or ‘lighted up’ by the injury so it resulted in the disability found to exist plaintiff was entitled to recover.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).