Samaritan Health Services v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

CLABORNE, Presiding Judge.

The question presented here is whether an injury which occurs while one is engaged in a work-related function, but which results from the worker’s physical condition and an activity which involves no strain greater than that which one would experience in a normal nonemployment setting is a compensable injury. We find that it is.

I

In August 1988, when respondent employee, Olga Holbert, was 54 years old, she sustained an injury to her left knee while bending to perform a filing task. She timely protested the denial of her claim for workers’ compensation.

At the…