Appeal of Anheuser-Busch Co.

The petitioners, Anheuser-Busch Company, Inc. (Anheuser) and ACE USA as its insurer, appeal a decision of the New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board (board) requiring them to pay disability benefits to the respondent, Douglas Bennett, following his knee replacement surgery in January 2006. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

We recite the facts as found by the board or as presented in the record. The respondent has worked for Anheuser full time since August 1978 in its brewing department. His position requires significant physical labor, including heavy lifting and cleaning inside empty…