Harris v. Mackin & Associates

WILNER, Chief Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation case. It presents to us, for the first time, the question of whether injuries suffered while en route to medical treatment for a prior compensable injury are themselves compensable even if the earlier injury was not otherwise a factor contributing to the second injury.

On July 5, 1989, appellant sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment by appellee, for which he received workers’ compensation benefits. On March 17,1993, while entering a building to receive prescribed physical therapy for his compensable…