O'Neal v. Cincinnati Insurance

Birdsong, Judge.

This was a civil action alleging fraud in the procurement of a stipulation and covenant not to sue (settlement) pertaining to a workers’ compensation claim. The record discloses no factual dispute that appellant O’Neal was injured while doing casual labor for the employer Superior Cleaners and Rite Way Cleaners. The appellant was injured December 6, 1980. During the following week, while O’Neal was under medication of the drug percodan, with his arm in a long cast, he was visited by two representatives of the appellee insurer, Mr. Adams and Mr. Johnson. Ultimately on December…