Claim of Tucci v. Kimball

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 10, 2000, which ruled, inter alia, that claimant’s urinary incontinence was consequential to a compensable back injury.

Claimant, a nursery school teacher, sustained a work-related injury to her lower back in December 1974 and thereafter was classified as permanently partially disabled and awarded workers’ compensation benefits. Claimant continued to seek treatment for her back condition and underwent a second laminectomy in 1993.* Thereafter, in 1996, claimant was referred to a urologist for evaluation and treatment of her…