Chase Bank teller loses claim alleging repetitive trauma to hands from counting money and keyboarding

Accident: P was bank teller.  She did not testify to specific tasks, or amounts of time she spent doing repetitive hand tasks.  Therefore, her doctor's opinion that relied on an assumption that P counted a lot of money and used a keyboard throughout the day was not supported by P's testimony about her job at trial, and so did not help P.

P's treating surgeon had testified that if P continuously counts money for 2 hours straight in a regular day, then this could be sufficient flexion and extension of the wrist to aggravate underlying carpal tunnel syndrome.  So could typing on a keyboard continuously for 4 hours a day.  Lifting and moving safety boxes, handling deposits and withdrawal slips, and filing would not be sufficient to contrbute to carpal tunnel syndrome, he opined.

But, since P didn't testify to how many hours she typed or counted money, her doctor's opinion didn't help her and she loses for failure to prove causal connection.