Rutherford v. Newman

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• finding that prior decisions denying compensability for disabilities developing over period of time because they lacked suddenness, unexpectedness and unforeseeability, frustrated clear purpose of workers’ compensation law to compensate workers injured as result of employment
• prior to the Village decision the Court read the definition narrowly to cover only spontaneous, accidental, injuries; occupational diseases are defined separately under the statutory scheme.

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