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In this workers' compensation case, the Board denied Travelers Insurance's petition for reconsideration, upholding the WCJ's finding that the applicant sustained a cumulative trauma injury as a bus driver ending June 8, 2002. Travelers argued the date of injury should have been July 16, 1998, when the applicant was diagnosed with hypertension, asserting the applicant knew his condition was work-related at that time. However, the Board found insufficient evidence that the applicant knew or should have known in 1998 that his disability was caused by his employment. Therefore, liability was correctly apportioned to the employer for the period ending June 8, 2002, when the applicant's injurious exposure concluded.
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In this workers' compensation case, the Board denied Travelers Insurance's petition for reconsideration, upholding the WCJ's finding that the applicant sustained a cumulative trauma injury as a bus driver ending June 8, 2002. Travelers argued the date of injury should have been July 16, 1998, when the applicant was diagnosed with hypertension, asserting the applicant knew his condition was work-related at that time. However, the Board found insufficient evidence that the applicant knew or should have known in 1998 that his disability was caused by his employment. Therefore, liability was correctly apportioned to the employer for the period ending June 8, 2002, when the applicant's injurious exposure concluded.
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