Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. v. Subsequent Injury Fund

This workmen’s compensation case, here on certiorari to the Court of Special Appeals, involves the liability of an employer and its insurance carrier as well as that of the Subsequent Injury Fund when a claimant, initially determined to be only permanently partially disabled due to the combined effects of a previous impairment and a subsequent compensable injury, is later found on reopening to have become permanently totally disabled.

Two injuries to claimant Sidney Compton while employed by Anchor Motor Freight, Inc., one in 1961 and the other in 1966, and three entwining orders of the…