Young v. Johnson County Board of Education

REED, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case the single issue concerns whether the Special Fund should reimburse the employer for workmen’s compensation benefit payments made by the employer prior to the time an apportionment for ultimate responsibility for payment between the Fund and the employer was made by the board. The board, in effect, denied the employer’s claim for reimbursement and the circuit court reversed the board and directed that the reimbursement be effected. We agree with the circuit court.

Stripped of inconsequential details, the facts are these: Charles LeMaster, an…