The sole issue on appeal is whether there is substantial evidence to support the board's finding that the employer had knowledge of a pre-existing permanent impairment. Respondent was hired in 1952 as a mechanical inspector for the Albany Housing Authority. At that time he was suffering from a permanent disability, diagnosed as a rupture of the nucleus pulposus of the fourth lumbar vertebra, as a result of an injury sustained in 1940. In...
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