Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co. v. Kubli

Petitioners, Armstrong Tire and Rubber Company (employer) and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (insurance carrier), appeal from a decision on judicial review affirming the commissioner’s award of workers’ compensation benefits to respondent-claimant, Wayne F. Kubli, for the aggravation of a pre-existing back disease resulting from his employment. Petitioners assert the evidence was insufficient to support a finding that claimant’s disability was caused by an injury arising out of his employment and that, as a matter of law, claimant was not entitled to healing period benefits because the…