Johnson v. Pennsylvania Millers Mutual Insurance

Goolsby, Judge;

The issues in this workers’ compensation case relate to whether an insurance policy issued by the appellant Pennsylvania Millers Mutual Insurance Company provided workers’ compensation coverage to the respondent Sam Johnson and to whether Johnson waived his right to workers’ compensation benefits by litigating a third party claim. The single commissioner and the full commission held that Johnson was not covered under the Pennsylvania Millers policy and that Johnson made an election of remedies by pursuing the third party claim, thereby waiving any rights he had to workers’…