Warren Properties and Ace American Insurance Company v. Janice Stewart

CADY, Chief Justice.

In this workers’ compensation appeal, we are asked to revisit our rule gov erning apportionment resulting from successive work injuries at multiple places of employment in light of the 2004 amendments to the workers’ compensation permanent disabilities statute. The deputy workers’ compensation commissioner awarded benefits to the worker based on a finding of two successive injuries to the back and a shoulder injury and applied the full-responsibility rule with no apportionment for the preexisting disability. Our review follows reviews by the workers’ compensation…