High Court Overturns Denial of Former Pro Soccer Player's Knee Injury Claim

The District of Columbia’s high court overturned the denial of a former professional soccer player’s claim for benefits for a right knee injury allegedly caused by a decades-old injury to her left knee. Case: Little v. DOES, No. 23-AA-0460, 09/05/2024, published. Facts and procedural history: Skylar Meinhardt played soccer for the Washington Freedom from 2001 until 2003. In 2015, she began complaining of pain in her right knee. Meinhardt underwent surgeries to repair a torn meniscus in her right knee in 2016 and 2019. Meinhardt then filed a workers’ compensation clai...