Lutch v. Department of Labor & Industries

This appeal involves the question of whether an industrial insurance claim survives to the claimant’s personal representative upon the claimant’s death.

Michael H. Lutch, now deceased, was injured while engaged in extrahazardous employment in the logging industry, for which he filed a claim with the department of labor and industries on August 9, 1950. He was awarded fifty per cent of' the maximum allowable for -unspecified-disabilities.- This claim was closed June 22, 1951. ,On September 18, 1953, he filed an application to reopen the claim on the grounds of aggravation of his disability. On…