Court Opinion

ID: 9565564
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:23:49.109935+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:45.411237
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HUNTLEY, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent for the reason that the Industrial Commission, possibly due to imprecision in the claimant’s focusing of the issue, has misunderstood the nature of claimant’s case, which misdefinition of the issue carries through to the majority opinion.
The Commission found that the tenosynovitis was caused by the underlying diabetes and not by the employment and therefore denied all benefits.
However, the record is clear that although there was the underlying diabetes and the predisposition to tenosynovitis, it was the lifting of the milk cartons which caused the swelling and flare-up. Accordingly, the work aggravated a preexisting condition and although the claimant was undoubtedly not entitled to compensation for tenosynovitis, the claimant was entitled to temporary total or temporary partial disability during the period that the swelling incapacitated claimant from further work.
BISTLINE, J., concurs.