Appeal of Wingate

The claimant, Thomas Wingate, appeals a decision of the New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board (board) denying his request for payment of a medical bill incurred more than a decade after his 1988 workplace injury. He argues that the respondent, Hansen Fox Company, Inc., should have been estopped from contesting the causal relationship between his back condition treated in 2000 and his 1988 compensable work injury. We vacate in part, reverse in part and remand.

We recite the facts found by the board, presented in the record, or undisputed by the parties. In January 1988, the claimant injured…