Landry v. City of Scott

SAUNDERS, Judge.

|; This is a workers’ compensation case where the employee injured his shoulder within the course and scope of his employment in April of 1998. Although the employee had other medical conditions prior to the work accident, they did not prevent him from working. After this work accident, the employee never returned to work, and his condition deteriorated.

The workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) found that the employee’s various medical diagnosis that rendered him unemployable were causally related to the shoulder injury that occurred in April of 1998. Thus, the WCJ determined that…