Industrial Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Commission

MEMORANDUM DECISION

GERBER, Judge.

This action involves a dispute between successive workers’ compensation carriers of a single employer. The administrative law judge (A.L.J.) concluded that a fall resulting when respondent employee (claimant) stepped backwards off an approximately one foot high platform was a compensable new injury even though a preexisting weakness predisposed him to fall when doing normal weight-bearing activity. The award imposed liability on the new injury carrier (Industrial Indemnity). The A.L.J. also determined that Industrial Indemnity was responsible for the August…