Brewer v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

In this workers’ compensation case, claimant requested that her previously closed claim be reopened because of aggravation of her occupational disease, bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. SAIF denied her request, a hearing was held, and the referee reversed the denial, finding that

“the evidence slightly preponderates that claimant’s case should have been reopened as of October 26, 1980, for both the right and the left carpal tunnel problems.”

The Workers’ Compensation Board reversed the referee, and claimant appeals.

We adopt the facts of the case as set out in the Board’s order on review as…