Liberty Northwest Insurance v. Senters

Liberty Northwest Insurance Corporation (Liberty) seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board determining that it is responsible for claimant’s right shoulder and low back condition.

Claimant sustained a low back injury while working for Liberty’s insured in March, 1988. Dr. Hockey performed a lumbar laminectomy at L5-S1. Liberty accepted the claim and, by stipulation, awarded claimant 7.5 percent unscheduled permanent partial disability. In August, 1989, claimant began working for SAIF’s insured. In October, 1990, he began to feel pain in the low back and right leg. The…