... double recovery to Cherry. The workers' compensation laws provide for workers'
compensation payments to injured worker's only to the extent that the worker is not
compensated by third-party tortfeasors. In other words, workers ...
... degenerative changes did not disqualify him from receiving workers' compensation benefits.
Claimant is correct that "[a]n employer takes an employee as it finds him or her; a preexisting
infirmity does not eliminate the opportunity for a worker's compensation claim provided the ...
... Allen submitted a worker's compensation claim to the Idaho State Insurance Fund
("SIF"). SIF refused to cover Allen's injury, asserting that WWR was not covered
by worker's compensation insurance at the time of her injury. ...