MULTIPLE INJURY TRUST FUND v. SUGG

¶ In Ball v. Multiple Injury Trust Fund, 2015 OK 64, 360 P.3d 499, this Court held that under the 2005 version of 85 0.8. § 171 an employee must be a physically impaired person as defined by the applicable statute before he or she can seek benefits from the Multiple Injury Trust Fund. In Ball, the Claimant had no prior adjudicated on-the-job injuries but sought to combine a Crumby finding 1 of pre-existing disability made simultaneously with an adjudication of an on-the-job injury to render her a physically impaired person. We held that because of the Legislature's specific removal of the…