Eckhart v. State

WALTERS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Industrial Commission denying apportionment of benefits from the Industrial Special Indemnity Fund (ISIF), after the Commission found the claimant, Ronnie Dean Eckhart, totally and permanently disabled under the odd-lot doctrine on account of his work-related injury to his back. We affirm.

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BACKGROUND

On July 30,1990, in the employ of Western Dairymen’s Association, Eckhart fell down some stairs and injured his lower back. At the time of the accident, Eckhart was forty-five years old and had worked for Dairymen’s thirteen years, most…