Curran v. North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] Kari Curran had suffered prior off-the-job injuries to her lower back and had degenerative disc disease. While on the job as a nurse, she bent over to pick up a band-aid from the floor and experienced significant lower back pain. Because a reasoning mind could have found as WSI did, that picking up the band-aid triggered a preexisting condition but did not substantially accelerate or worsen her condition, we reverse the district court judgment and reinstate the decision of Workforce Safety & Insurance (“WSI”).1

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[¶ 2] In February 2007, Kari Curran submitted a claim to…