BOEING CO. v. HANSEN

No. 40316-8-I.

985 P.2d 421 (1999)

97 Wash.App. 553

The BOEING COMPANY, Respondent, v. Michael HANSEN and The Department of Labor and Industries of the State of Washington, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

October 4, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Robert Powell, Mill Creek, W. Stuart Hirshfield, Wash. St. Atty. General, Seattle, for Appellants.

Gary Donald Keehn, Seattle, for Respondent.


GROSSE, J.

In order to make a prima facie case regarding the existence of a preexisting injury that subsumes or reduces a current claim for disability arising from an industrial injury, a party must present clinical objective findings of the impairment resulting from that preexisting injury. Absent those objective findings, the opinion of a medical expert based solely on a medical history that does not present objective evidence of impairment is insufficient. Here...

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