Bauman v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board. The principal issue is whether the Board was correct in concluding that it was permissible for SAIF, the insurer for claimant’s former employer, to reconsider and deny his previously accepted claim for a non-disabling occupational disease.1 We reverse.

In 1977, claimant was employed as a tool and die maker for Omark Industries. His job required some heavy lifting and regular overhead work with his arms. He experienced increasingly disturbing pain in his right shoulder and, in October, 1977, he filed a claim for a bursitis-type…