Newberg v. Weaver

OPINION OF THE COURT

This workers’ compensation case concerns whether the Special Fund’s payment period for an award of income benefits may be accelerated when the worker and his employer enter into a pre-award settlement agreement providing for periodic payments over the worker’s lifetime rather than for a lump-sum payment.

Claimant and his employer, Energy Producers Associates, entered into a pre-award settlement agreement which provided for 17.-41% of a permanent, total, occupational disability benefit to be paid by the employer in periodic payments over claimant’s lifetime or for a minimum…