Avery v. City of Columbia

BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

The City of Columbia appeals from a decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission awarding workers’ compensation benefits in the form of total knee replacement surgery and future temporary total disability benefits to its employee, Donald Avery, for knee injuries he sustained while driving a bus for the City. The City contends that the Commission erred in its award because there was not sufficient competent evidence that Mr. Avery suffered a compensable injury or that a causal connection exists between that injury and knee treatments he might require in the…