Subsequent Injury Fund v. Compton

As in Reliance Insurance Company v. Watts, 16 Md. App. 71, this Workmen’s Compensation appeal presents for our resolution a dispute between the claimant’s employer and insurer (appellees) and the Subsequent Injury Fund (appellant) concerning what proportion of an award for permanent total disability each should pay.

The genesis of the dispute was an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Commission, dated August, 1962, determining that as a result of an accidental injury occurring on February 4, 1961, the claimant, Sydney Compton, “sustained a permanent partial disability resulting in 40% loss of…