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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board reversed a lower decision, finding California lacked jurisdiction over a professional football player's cumulative trauma claim against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Board held that playing only two games in California did not create a sufficient connection to the injury to warrant applying California law, citing Federal Insurance Co. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (Johnson). The applicant's limited physical presence and routine pre/post-game treatment in California were deemed de minimis. Therefore, the applicant took nothing on his California WCAB claim.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board reversed a lower decision, finding California lacked jurisdiction over a professional football player's cumulative trauma claim against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Board held that playing only two games in California did not create a sufficient connection to the injury to warrant applying California law, citing Federal Insurance Co. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (Johnson). The applicant's limited physical presence and routine pre/post-game treatment in California were deemed de minimis. Therefore, the applicant took nothing on his California WCAB claim.
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