Harbor Insurance Company v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

NELSON, Presiding Judge.

The critical question presented for review is whether a workmen’s compensation insurance carrier has the right to suspend or terminate payment of permanent partial disability benefits to a claimant when the claimant seeks and receives total temporary disability benefits from another workmen’s compensation carrier as the result of a subsequent industrial injury. We hold that a workmen’s compensation insurance carrier is not vested with that authority and we therefore affirm the award of the Industrial Commission.

Raymond Adair sustained an industrial injury to his…