Legal Opinion
Ball v. State Ex Rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety & Compensation Division
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided September 22, 2010No. S-09-165PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDEN, Justice.
[T1] James L. Ball (Ball) appeals the district court decision reversing an Office of Administrative Hearings order awarding benefits for medical treatments Ball received for a hernia. Ball suffered the hernia when a spinal cord stimulator, implanted to treat chronic back pain from an earlier compensa-ble work-related injury, malfunctioned and shocked him, causing him to stand rapidly and then fall, The question we must answer is whether the hernia occurred "in the course of the employment" as that term appears in Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 27-14-608(c)@ii) (Lexis Nexis 2009). We hold…
2Cases cited40 opinions
- McGuire v. McGuireWyoming Supreme Court · 1980
- Billis v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1990
- Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Wyoming State Board of EqualizationWyoming Supreme Court · 1991
- Baldwin v. ScullionWyoming Supreme Court · 1936
- Rudd v. Fairforest Finishing Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1939
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