Stone v. Department of Labor & Industries

¶1 — Under chapter 51.32 RCW, a workers’ compensation claimant is precluded from receiving both a pension and a permanent partial disability award if the pension is based on the combined effects of two or more related injuries.1 Here, Steven Stone received a pension based on the combined effects of two separate industrial injuries. There is no evidence in the record that his two injuries are severable for purposes of the pension. The superior court correctly determined that he is not entitled to a permanent partial disability award for his first industrial injury. We affirm.

*259¶2 Stone filed a…