Employer Must Pay for Worker's Self-Developed Treatments of Decades-Old Back Injury

The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld the compensability of a former news reporter’s self-developed treatments for a decades-old back injury. Case: Paxton Media Group v. Hammond, No. 2023-CA-0807-WC, 08/30/2024, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Lynda Hammond worked as a television news reporter in Kansas. On April 19, 1992, Hammond’s chair broke beneath her, causing her to suffer a compression injury to her lower back. She received treatment and continued to work. In 1994, Hammond moved to Kentucky and began working for Paxton Media Group. She began seeing Dr. John Noon...