Wright Schuchart Harbor v. Johnson

Employer petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that sets aside employer’s denial of compensability to the extent that it denied the compensability of surgery to repair claimant’s knee condition. Employer contends that the Board improperly considered the medical services issue because claimant had previously waived any medical services claim. We reverse and remand for reconsideration.

Claimant originally injured her left knee in a nonwork-related incident in 1977. In April 1990, she compensably reinjured her left knee. Her treating physician diagnosed a torn…