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- Title: Hugh Bottoms v. Pioneer Irrigation
- Author : Supreme Court of Idaho No. 11128
- Release Date : January 29, 1973
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Claimant Hugh Bottoms was employed by Pioneer Irrigation District of Caldwell as a ditch rider and maintenance man. Pioneer Irrigation District was insured under the Idaho Workmen's Compensation Law by the State Insurance Fund. On December 9, 1965, the caterpillar tractor which claimant was operating tipped over, and claimant struck his chest against the breather pipe on the hood of the tractor. Claimant went to a Dr. Paul Finck of Caldwell, Idaho, who diagnosed him as having a hiatal hernia and hospitalized claimant from December 21, 1965, until January 14, 1966. Dr. Finck referred claimant to a Dr. A. M. Palrang of Caldwell, Idaho. On January 17, 1966, Dr. Palrang performed an esophagoscopy and biopsy, vagotomy, and a pyloroplasty repair of the hiatal hernia with temporary tube gastrostomy. The initial medical expenses of diagnosis, surgery and hospitalization through March 16, 1966, were paid by the employer's surety, State Insurance Fund, sometime prior to September 21, 1966. For the balance of 1966, and for the years 1967, 1968 and 1969, claimant received continual medical treatment for the herniated condition of his neck, those treatments consisting primarily of dilation of the esophagus. This was necessitated because the esophagus would shrink to the point where claimant could not ingest food, and without the regular dilations claimant was unable to obtain sufficient nourishment to maintain bodily weight and health. The medical expense incident to these interim treatments was not paid by either the employer or its surety. Apparently claimant's Blue Cross insurance paid these expenses. As a result the record is devoid of any evidence of payments for medical expenses by the surety which were incurred after March of 1966, until October 26, 1970, when the surety paid certain medical expenses incident to corrective surgery in connection with the hiatal hernia which was performed in a Seattle, Washington, hospital on February 25, 1970, more than four years after the accident.