Reliance Insur. Co. v. Watts

This Workmen’s Compensation appeal leaves the claimant, having been awarded maximum benefits for permanent total disability, in the enviable legal position of a disinterested spectator, while his employer’s insurer and the Subsequent Injury Fund litigate the question of what proportion of the total award each should pay.

Ralph C. Watts, Sr. was injured in the course of his employment as a guard, or night watchman, on March 4, 1970. Some years earlier he had sustained injuries in a motor vehicle accident, one result of which was the amputation of his left leg. He performed his watchman duties…