J. M. Huber Corp. v. Holliday

Johnson, Judge.

We granted J. M. Huber Corporation’s application for discretion ary appeal to review an award of workers’ compensation benefits t< *5liarry Holliday based on the “superadded injury” theory. Huber contends that the ALJ misapplied this theory in an attempt to find coverage where the claim was not otherwise compensable.

The following facts are not in dispute: Holliday suffered a compensable injury to his left knee in 1985. He was assigned a 16 percent permanent partial disability rating and was given a mostly seden;ary job which never required stress on the knee. Although he had some…