Evans v. Rookard, Inc.

In this workers’ compensation case, claimant seeks review of a Board decision which refused to honor the parties’ stipulation that, in the event that EBI was held to be responsible for the claim, it would pay claimant attorney fees of $700 for his attorney’s participation at the hearing. EBI cross-petitions, challenging the Board’s holding that it, and not Industrial Indemnity, is responsible for the claim.

We affirm on the cross-petition. The medical evidence persuades us that claimant’s knee condition is the responsibility of EBI as an aggravation of an earlier compensable injury and is not…