Claim of Hartman v. Top's Market, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 5, 2012, which, among other things, ruled that the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier is not entitled to reimbursement from the Special Disability Fund.

Claimant injured her back while working for the employer in 2007 and thereafter was awarded workers’ compensation benefits. Upon learning that claimant suffered from preexisting hypertension and bilateral degenerative joint disease of the knees, the employer and its workers’ compensation carrier (hereinafter collectively referred to as the carrier) applied for *1044reimburs…