SAIF Corp. v. Durant

Petitioners SAIF Corporation and its insured, MPP Piping, Inc. (MPP),1 seek review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that found MPP responsible for claimant’s 2011 shoulder condition as a consequential condition of claimant’s 2006 shoulder injury at MPP. MPP contends that the board erred by refusing to apply the last injurious exposure rule (LIER) to shift responsibility for the admittedly work-related shoulder condition to a later employer. MPP also contends that the board erred in concluding that claimant’s compensable injury was the major contributing cause of his 2011…