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Abilene Independent School District v. Marks

Dr. Judd's causation opinion that the April 11, 2003 work injury caused Marks's chondromalacia provided further evidentiary support for the trial court's findings that the April 11, 2003 incident caused Marks's chondromalacia and that Marks had an impairment rating of 15 percent. Eastland Court of Appeals, No. 11-07-00019-CV.

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OPINION

This is a workers’ compensation case. Appellee, James Marks, suffered an on-the-job knee injury while in the course and scope of his employment with appellant, Abilene Independent School District. AISD did not dispute that Marks tore the medial meniscus in his left knee and that, therefore, the torn meniscus was a compensable injury. However, AISD disputed that the on-the-job injury caused chondromalacia in Marks’s left patella and chondromalacia in his left medial femoral condyle. The appeals panel for the Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission found that Marks’s compensable injury included the chondromalacia and that Marks had a 15% impairment rating.*fn1 AISD sought judicial review, and following a bench trial, the trial court rendered judgment that the compensable injury included the chondromalacia and that Marks’s impairment rating was 15%. AISD attacks the trial court’s judgment in three appellate issues. We affirm.

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