Koch v. Arnesen

SIMONETT, Justice.

By certiorari the employer-insurer seeks review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals affirming by a divided vote the ruling of the compensation judge that the employee had sustained a compensable injury to his neck in an accident that had occurred 16 years before the employee’s petition was filed. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

On June 24, 1980, Nicholas A. Koch testified at the hearing on his petition for workers’ compensation benefits for a neck injury allegedly sustained in an accident on September 12, 1964. Mr. Koch said he had…