Footstar, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

BENHAM, Justice.

In 1999, Felicia Stevens was injured on the job while Travelers Insurance Company provided workers’ compensation coverage for her employer, Footstar, Inc. She continued working and received medical benefits only. After Liberty Mutual Insurance Company became the workers’ compensation carrier for Footstar in 2001, Travelers sought a ruling that Stevens had suffered a fictional new injury, a ruling which would have shifted coverage to Liberty Mutual. However, an administrative law judge entered instead an award establishing the fact of Stevens’s 1999 injury and rejecting the…