Workers’ Comp – Injury By Accident – Credibility – Tree Trimmer 
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Published: June 30, 2008
Although claimant’s employer/companion on a tree trimming operation testified claimant said he and his girlfriend were having problems and she was going to leave him, and he deliberately used his chainsaw to cut his rope in half so he fell to the ground, the commission excluded employer’s testimony because it failed to give notice of ...
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