Ritz v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is a workmen’s compensation appeal by the State Accident Insurance Fund from a circuit court finding of permanent total disability. The referee had also so found, however the Workmen’s Compensation Board had reversed the referee and reinstated an award of 30 degrees for 20 percent loss of use of claimant’s right leg. The Fund concedes the partial disability to the leg and prays that the order of the Board be reinstated.

Claimant, when injured, was a 44-year-old timber faller and bucker. In January, 1973, in the course of his work, he received a blow to his right knee. He lost no work…