Armellini Express Lines, Inc. v. Special Disability Trust Fund

MILLS, Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation appeal from an order denying the employer/carrier’s claim for reimbursement from the Special Disability Trust Fund (Fund). The e/c argue that the deputy commissioner erred in concluding a merger did not occur. We affirm.

Donald Helenburg worked as a truck driver for Armellini Express Lines, Inc. On 28 April 1985, he was in a truck being driven by another Armellini employee when the truck overturned. As a result of the mishap, Helenburg sustained a fracture at the C4-C5 level of the cervical spine, rendering him a quadriplegic.

At the time of the…