Townsend v. Argonaut Insurance

Claimant appeals an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board approving denial of responsibility for claimant’s ankylosing spondylitis. Employer and its compensation carrier, Argonaut Insurance Company (Argonaut), cross-appeal, seeking reversal of an increase in the award by determination order for unscheduled permanent partial disability resulting from a 1972 compensable back injury. We affirm.

Claimant sustained a compensable injury to his back in March, 1972, when he was struck on his lower back by a pole. He was diagnosed as suffering a contusion of the sacrum and lumbar area, chronic…