Weldele v. Medley Development

The State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) appeals a Workers’ Compensation Court order setting aside the full and final compromise settlement of respondent Darryl Weldele’s Workers’ Compensation claim.

We affirm.

The dispositive issue on appeal is whether a mutual mistake of material fact, at the time the compromise settlement was entered into, prevented the parties from effectively consenting to the agreement. The Workers’ Compensation Court found that there was and we agree.

In July, 1978, respondent suffered a work-related injury while working for Medley Development in Cascade County,…