Devereaux v. North Pacific Insurance

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board reversing the referee’s decision that her carpal tunnel syndrome condition is compensable and that she is entitled to penalties for the insurer’s unreasonable denial of her claim. In addition to a reversal on those issues, she seeks a modification of the Board’s order with respect to her entitlement to interim compensation and penalties for the insurer’s failure timely to pay her the full amount of that compensation.

We turn first to the issue of compensability. Claimant, age 38 at the time of the hearing, began to work for…