USX Corp. v. Bradley

As the main opinion notes, the trial court treated the employee's right-wrist carpal tunnel syndrome as a workplace injury arising from an accident; that court's judgment states as a finding of fact that the worker's "claim of a permanent disabling compensable injury to her right wrist is supported bysubstantial evidence" (emphasis added). The main opinion concludes that because carpal tunnel syndrome may be caused either by repetitive hand movements or by a single acute event, the trial court did not, as a matter of law, err in applying the general "preponderance-of-the-evidence" standard of…