Stidham v. Special Disability Trust Fund

WENTWORTH, Judge.

Employer/carrier seek review of a workers’ compensation order by which the Special Disability Trust Fund was directed to reimburse employer/carrier $9,000 of the $15,000 paid by employer/carrier to claimant for settlement of his future compensation benefits. The order found that employer/carrier was not entitled to reimbursement from the Special Disability Trust Fund for a part of its claim because:

[T]he employer/servicing-agent has failed to show by competent and substantial evidence that the $8,821.28 that it has classified as future temporary compensation benefits in the…