Claim of Di Simone v. Underwriters Adjusting Co.

— Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 13, 1982. On September 3, 1971, claimant, while in the course of his employment as an insurance adjustor, sustained a compensable low back injury when loading a heavy briefcase into his automobile. After being totally disabled for some seven weeks, claimant returned to work. He continued, however, to experience intermittent flare-ups of back pain, usually upon physical activity. In 1973, the low back pain was such as to require claimant’s confinement to bed for two weeks. On June 11, 1977, shortly after placing a…