Zurich Insurance v. Cheshire

Deen, Presiding Judge.

In September 1981 appellee Cheshire, an employee of a poultry processing plant, injured her right arm when she fell from a platform on which she was standing to perform her duties. She was sent to a local hospital for treatment and returned to work the next day. She neither applied for nor received workers’ compensation benefits. At this time appellant Zurich Insurance Company (Zurich) was the workers’ compensation carrier for her employer.

Within a short time appellee began to experience pain in both her arms and to have difficulty in grasping and holding the chicken…