Industrial Indemnity Co. v. Weaver

Industrial Indemnity, employer’s present insurer, seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order holding it responsible for claimant’s left foot condition. Claimant cross-petitions from that portion of the order which reversed the referee’s award of penalties and attorney fees for Industrial Indemnity’s unreasonable denial of compensability.1 We reverse on the petition and on the cross-petition.

Claimant worked for the Greenwood Inn as a waitress from 1975 through the time of the hearing. In 1977, she filed a claim for an occupational disease known as Morton’s neuroma. Employee Benefits…