Shea v. Bader

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Industrial Commission which denied an employer’s claim against the Industrial Special Indemnity Fund and a cross-appeal by employee-claimant from the Commission’s award of attorney’s fees to him.

In 1967, claimant-respondent and cross-appellant was working as a logger and fell from a load of logs and landed on his back. Four days later the tongue of a logging trailer fell striking Shea on the head. Shea underwent several surgeries for treatment of the resultant back and neck injuries, including a cervical fusion and disc extraction in his…