Legal Opinion
Miles v. Frontier Plastic Fabricators
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 9, 1999No. 90,176PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATT, Justice:
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
¶ 1 This appeal arises out of an injury to claimant Steve Miles’s low back in April 1996 while he was employed by respondent Frontier Plastic Fabricators. This was the second of three injuries, each of which resulted in a low back surgery to the same part of Miles’s back. Dr. F, a neurosurgeon, participated in all three surgeries.
¶2 The first of Miles’s back problems arose in 1989 when Miles suffered an on-the-job injury to his low back, which resulted in surgery to the disc at the space between his fourth and fifth lumbar vertebra. Miles was not…
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