Appeal of Commercial Union Insurance

The petitioner, Commercial Union Insurance Company, appeals a decision of the New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board (board). The board held that the petitioner, rather than the respondent, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, is liable for coverage of the claimant’s, Sylvia Wright’s, cumulative trauma disability claim. See RSA 281-A:46 (1999). We vacate and remand.

We recite the facts as found by the board or as presented in the record. The claimant had been employed as a mail clerk at Littleton Stamp & Coin (employer) for approximately five and one-half years when she developed a sharp pain…