Liberty Northwest Insurance v. Koitzsch

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board establishing the date from which claimant’s aggravation rights run as October 29, 1993, the date that claimant’s claim was first closed. We affirm.

Claimant worked in employer’s cannery for a number of years. On April 17, 1989, she sought medical care for numbness and tingling in her hands and for arm pain principally on her right side. Employer accepted claimant’s occupational disease claim for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) for her right side in 1989. In March, 1991, she filed a separate claim for left CTS, using the date of…