On its appeal from an award for partial disability due to low back sprain, the self-insured employer contests only the board's denial of reimbursement upon the finding "that there was no prior physical impairment within the purview of Section 15-8 of the Workmen's Compensation Law". There was medical proof that at the time of the injury in the low lumbar region, upon which this claim was predicated, claimant had made "a very good recovery...
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