Liberty Northwest Insurance v. Bowen

Employer seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board Order on Review that, in pertinent part, set aside employer’s denial of claimant’s current occupational disease claim for cervical degenerative disc disease. The Board determined that a September 1993 stipulation between the parties, which awarded claimant an eight percent unscheduled disability on a thoracic compression fracture arising out of a November 1991 workplace injury, and which dismissed “all issues raised or raisable,” did not preclude claimant’s current claim. We agree with the Board and affirm.

Claimant worked as a waitress…