Kalapodes v. E. E. Black, Ltd.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

HAYASHI, J.

This case presents the question whether the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board (Appeals Board) properly joined a claimant-employee’s previous employer in order to consolidate his multiple claims for separate injuries against successive employers. We decide it did and affirm the Appeals Board.

The facts of this case are not in dispute. Claimant Chris Kalapodes (Kalapodes) injured his back four different times. He first injured it lifting a heavy box on March 23, 1972, while employed by Del E. Webb Corporation (Webb). Kalapodes was out of work seven…