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The court set aside the Labor Commission Appeals Board's denial of permanent total disability benefits and remanded for reconsideration, finding the Board applied an incorrect legal standard by treating the employee's prior return to work as forever barring a subsequent claim based on the original 1987 workplace injury.
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