Liberty Northwest Ins. Corp. v. Spurgeon

*568WARREN, P. J.

Employer seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order that held that claimant’s carpal tunnel syndrome is compensable as an occupational disease. We reverse.

Employer does not challenge the Board’s findings, which it adopted from the referee’s order. Claimant worked in employer’s food service for eight years. Her job required significant repetitive motions with both hands. Claimant’s off-the-job activities included crocheting and bowling. The Board found that “idiopathic”1 factors, such as claimant’s age, gender and borderline diabetes, were either a predisposition to or…