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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a pizza shop must pay for weight-loss surgery for an obese employee to ensure the success of another operation for a back injury he suffered at work.
Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza cook Adam Childers of Schererville weighed 340 pounds when he was injured by a freezer door. Doctors said he needed back surgery but it wouldn’t be successful unless he had weight-loss surgery first.
Boston’s argued it shouldn’t have to pay because Childers’ weight was a pre-existing condition. But a workers’ compensation board and the court said his weight and the accident created a single injury.
