State Treasurer, Second Injury Fund v. Coleman

Donald L. Corbin, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Second Injury Fund (SIF) from a Workers’ Compensation Commission decision that appellee Dewey Coleman had suffered a “previous disability”, in addition to his compensable injury incurred while working for appellee Hardwick Airmasters, and that SIF was required to pay for that degree of disability arising from Coleman’s first injury. SIF contends on appeal that Coleman’s first injury was not acting to independently produce some degree of permanent disability both before and after the date of the last injury and that because the employer,…