Ligatich v. Liberty Northwest Ins. Corp.

Claimant petitions for review of a final order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (board) that upheld respondents’ denials of the compensability of bulges in his intervertebral discs at several lumbar spaces and of a disc protrusion at the L5-S1 space. The issues on review involve the L5-S1 disc protrusion. We hold that the board failed to consider claimant’s argument that respondent Liberty Northwest Insurance (insurer) had agreed to accept his claim for that protrusion. We therefore reverse and remand.

We state the underlying facts in accordance with the board’s findings, supplemented by the…