Rowland v. Carriers Insurance Co.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This Workers’ Compensation appeal involves the issue of whether Plaintiff, James A. Rowland, is barred from recovering benefits from Defendants, Carriers Insurance Company and Producers Transport Company, because of material misrepresentations about his physical condition on his application for employment. The law on this issue is firmly established and the determinative question on appeal is simply whether any material evidence supports the decision of the trial court. 1 The trial court found that Plaintiff had wilfully and knowingly made false representations of his…