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This case involves a deputy sheriff seeking workers' compensation for cumulative industrial injuries. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) found compensable injuries to the applicant's knees, asthma, sleep disorder, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, and hypertensive heart disease. The Defendant sought reconsideration, arguing that the hypertensive heart disease should only be attributed to the later injury date. The Board denied reconsideration, adopting the ALJ's report, which found that the stress from the original cumulative injury contributed to the hypertensive heart disease as a "new and further disability" or a "compensable consequence injury." Therefore, the injuries were correctly combined for a single permanent disability award, with no apportionment.
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This case involves a deputy sheriff seeking workers' compensation for cumulative industrial injuries. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) found compensable injuries to the applicant's knees, asthma, sleep disorder, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, and hypertensive heart disease. The Defendant sought reconsideration, arguing that the hypertensive heart disease should only be attributed to the later injury date. The Board denied reconsideration, adopting the ALJ's report, which found that the stress from the original cumulative injury contributed to the hypertensive heart disease as a "new and further disability" or a "compensable consequence injury." Therefore, the injuries were correctly combined for a single permanent disability award, with no apportionment.
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