Utick v. Utick

Claimant Andrew J. Utick appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court denying his request for a lump sum advance payment of total disability benefits due him from the State Compensation Insurance Fund.

Andrew J. Utick was the owner of the Capital Motel & Service Station in Helena, Montana, which he had operated and managed for the past 30 years. He had elected coverage for himself with the State Compensation Insurance Fund. Utick sustained two separate industrial accidents; the first on July 11, 1974, and the second on August 26, 1975. In the first accident, he sustained a fracture…