Pierson v. Treasurer of the State

PER CURIAM. 1

Thomas Pierson was injured in the course of his employment with The Boeing Company when he ruptured a cervical disc. The injury required a discectomy with an allograft fusion and plating at the C5-C7 level. Pierson settled his claim against Boeing for 35 percent of the body as a whole referable to the neck, or 140 weeks of disability.

Pierson has also suffered from strabismic amblyopia since early childhood, a condition that resulted in a 100 percent loss of vision in his left eye. He alleged that the loss of vision combined synergistically with the injury to his disc to result in…