Cloud v. Klamath County School District

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board upholding insurer’s denial of his claim for compensation. He assigns error to the board’s conclusion that insurer was not precluded from denying his current condition claim on the ground that insurer previously had accepted a condition that caused, in part, his current condition. We affirm.

Claimant suffered a right knee injury on August 2, 1999, when he slipped at work. Dr. Balme diagnosed a tear of the posterior horn of the right medial meniscus and, on October 29, 1999, performed a partial medial meniscectomy. Pursuant to…