DeGrauw v. Columbia Knit, Inc.

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board holding that the insurer was permitted to reclassify her claim from disabling to nondisabling, but that the Board did not have jurisdiction to consider the merits of the resulting classification.

Claimant developed back problems in 1988, while working for employer. She first sought treatment in August, 1989, and on September 29, 1989, filed a claim for a back injury. In February, 1990, Liberty Northwest Insurance Corp. (Liberty) accepted a claim for a disabling lumbosacral strain. In September, 1990, it issued a second notice…