IN RE HELM

No. 97-326.

982 P.2d 1236 (1999)

In The Matter of the WORKER'S COMPENSATION CLAIM of Linda K. HELM, an Employee of Flying J Oil Company: Linda K. Helm, Appellant (Petitioner/Claimant), v. State Of Wyoming, ex rel., Wyoming Workers' Safety And Compensation Division; and Flying J. Oil Co., Appellees (Respondents).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

June 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill G. Hibbler, Cheyenne, Wyoming, for Appellee.

William U. Hill, Attorney General; John W. Renneisen, Deputy Attorney General; Gerald W. Laska, Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Bernard P. Haggerty, Assistant Attorney General, Cheyenne, Wyoming, for Appellee State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Safety and Compensaton Division.

Before LEHMAN, C.J., and THOMAS, MACY, GOLDEN, and TAYLOR, JJ.


THOMAS, Justice.

The dispositive issue in this case is whether Linda K. Helm (Helm) failed to meet the burden of proof assigned to her under Pederson v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation Div., 939 P.2d 740, 742 (Wyo.1997). Specifically, the hearing examiner decided that Helm failed to demonstrate that carpal tunnel syndrome, claimed as a subsequent injury, was causally related to an original, covered injury to her...

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