Smith v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Haden, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal by the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner from a final order of the Workmen’s Com pensation Appeal Board which held, in reversing the Commissioner, that the Commissioner could not require Eastern Associated Coal Corporation, a self-insured employer, to pay medical bills for the benefit of its injured employee, Carl W. Smith, Sr., in excess of a $3,000.00 statutory limit in effect as of the date of the injury.

On December 1, 1967, Mr. Smith suffered a severe fractured leg in the course of and resulting from his employment. Subsequent complications…