Tannehill v. Special Indemnity Fund

SIMMS, Justice.

Does a workman with a prior adjudicated non-scheduled permanent partial disability become a “physically impaired person” as defined in 85 O.S.1971, § 171, and qualify as the recipient of the entitlements of the Special Indemnity Fund where he suffers a subsequent adjudicated non-scheduled permanent partial disability and a combination of the two separate non-scheduled (other cases) injuries is less that 100% or total permanent disability? The answer must be in the affirmative. In 1969, petitioner, hereafter claimant, sustained a neck injury which required surgery of the…