Kentucky Employers Safety Ass'n v. Lexington Diagnostic Center

OPINION OF THE COURT

This appeal results from a medical fee dispute between an employer and its workers’ compensation insurance carrier.1 At issue is whether a healthcare worker who was splattered in the face and eye with blood sustained a compensable injury and, as a consequence, whether the employer or the insurance carrier bears liability for the expense of OSHA-required prophylactic testing. Affirming a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Board, the Court of Appeals determined that the worker sustained a compensable injury and, thus, that the carrier was liable. We affirm but our…