Osantowski v. Pigeon Manufacturing Co.

This is a workers’ compensation dispute between two insurers, one of which, Citizens Insurance Company, was the employer’s insurance carrier at the time plaintiff was injured in an industrial accident and which, when plaintiff later became unable to work, paid benefits for a number of years. When plaintiff subsequently filed an amended petition alleging total and permanent disability, Citizens filed a petition for determination of rights, alleging that his disability did not arise from the original injury but from a subsequent aggravation thereof. If true, Employers Mutual of Wausau, the…