Legal Opinion
Kohlmeyer v. Second Injury Fund
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided June 10, 2008No. 93A02-0711-EX-1000PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRIEDLANDER, Judge.
James Kohlmeyer appeals the Indiana Worker’s Compensation Board’s (the Board’s) denial of Kohlmeyer’s petition for payment of benefits from Indiana’s Second Injury Fund. The following issue is dispos-itive of the appeal: Do Social Security disability benefits count toward the threshold amount of benefits that must be received in order to become eligible for benefits from the Second Injury Fund?
We affirm.
The facts are undisputed. Kohlmeyer was injured on October 27, 1996 while in the scope and course of his employment with H.B. Zachry Company. On October 19, 1998,…
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