Miller v. Spinnaker Coating

[¶ 1] At issue in this workers’ compensation appeal is whether the last insurer in a multiple-injury case may take a proportionate reduction in the employee’s benefit when liability for the first injury expires as a result of the statutory durational limit. Peter Miller suffered four work-related injuries to his lower back while working for S.D. Warren Co. and then Spinnaker Coating. He appeals from a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Board hearing officer (Jerome, HO) granting S.D. Warren’s petition to cease payment on the earliest injury and Spinnaker’s petition to reduce the total…