SOUTHWEST UNITED INDUSTRIES v. POLSTON

No. 82471.

964 P.2d 210 (1998)

1998 OK 78

SOUTHWEST UNITED INDUSTRIES, and State Insurance Fund, Petitioners, v. Bill POLSTON and The Workers' Compensation Court, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

July 14, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Highsaw, Oklahoma City, and Anne Catherine Pittman and John F. Bates, Tulsa, for Petitioner State Insurance Fund.

Michael R. Green, Sites and Green, Tulsa, for Respondent Bill Polston.

Bonita J. Hyatt, Law Office of Earl R. Donaldson, Tulsa, and Aimee Treece, Yukon, for Hartford Insurance Group.


HARGRAVE, Justice.

¶ 1 The claimant, Bill Polston, began working for Southwest United Industries ("employer") in June of 1990. In the following December he began having problems with his hands but did not seek medical attention because he thought that the symptoms were a part of adjusting to the job. The condition worsened to the extent that he sought medical attention in June of 1991. In the following October he was diagnosed as having carpal tunnel syndrome...

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