Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Ricky Adcock

Justice GREEN,

joined by Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, and Justice DEVINE, dissenting.

The Court today holds that, once awarded, lifetime income benefits (LIBs) are *500irrevocable and must be paid for the rest of a claimant’s life, even when it can be established at a later date that the claimant’s injury is no longer total and permanent. While the Court’s rationale makes sense for anatomical losses, it defies reason for functional losses. Advances in medicine and science offer previously unforeseen therapies and treatments that enable some persons who once seemed permanently injured to…