SAIF Corp. v. Drews

SAIF petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board holding it responsible for claimant’s low back condition. We affirm.

In 1985, while employed by Wausau Insurance Companies’ insured, claimant injured her low back and left leg on the job. Wausau accepted the claim. The injury was described as a “sprain, strain of low back, herniated.”

Claimant began to work for SAIF’s insured in December, 1989. On December 26, 1989, claimant tripped and fell at work and hurt her low back and left leg. An MRI showed a “mild posterior central disc bulging at L5-S1, slightly more prominent…