Agricomp Insurance v. Tapp

Petitioner PAULA Insurance (PAULA) 1 seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that applied the last injurious exposure rule (LIER) to assign PAULA responsibility for claimant’s left-side carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS). We affirm.

Claimant began working for CRB Manufacturing in 1968. He worked elsewhere from 1972 to 1975, but returned to CRB in 1975 and has worked there since that time. Throughout his employment with CRB, claimant has been a punch press operator. The parties acknowledge that claimant suffers from bilateral CTS, an occupational disease, caused by his work for…