Gates v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

The issues raised by these two Special Actions—Industrial Commission, relate to the problem of whether a prior scheduled injury1 which has been reopened, followed by another injury which has been closed as scheduled, must be closed as unscheduled2 and if so, whether a right of contribution exists between the carriers responsible for the two injuries.

These two special actions are the result of two separate and distinct awards, separately appealed and briefed and though combined at time of oral argument, remained separate cases. They have been consolidated only…