Lanier v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMP. COM'R’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Where, in the course of and arising out of his employment, an employee in good health and of strong physique, suffers physical injury, which is followed by serious disabilities, competent physicians differing as to whether the disabilities are attributable to the injury, but only probable or conjectural reasons or causes are assigned by physicians in an effort to explain the disabilities on grounds other than the injury, the presumptions should be resolved in favor of the employee rather than against him.” Point 1, Syllabus, Pripich v. State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner, 112 W.Va. 540 , 166 S.E. 4 (1932).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bias v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner