Harold Ruth v. Bituminous Casualty Corporation

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier, Bituminous Casualty Corporation (Bituminous Casualty), from a judgment in the District Court in favor of the insured company’s injured employee, Harold Ruth, for $100,000.

In 1963 Ruth was injured in the course of his employment at the Hogart Manufacturing Co. (Hogart), while operating a press manufactured by the predecessor of the E. W. Bliss Co. (Bliss). Bituminous Casualty was the workmen’s compensation carrier of Hogart, the employer, and it paid Ruth’s claim of $14,612.38 under the Michigan Workmen’s…