Stuckey v. Department of Labor & Industries

In these consolidated cases, claimants Marshall Stuckey and Willadean Roberts appeal the trial court’s decision affirming the Department of Labor and Industries’ method of recouping previous partial disability lump sum payments1 after claimants successfully appealed to the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals and were awarded total permanent disability pensions. The Department cross-appeals, contending the court erred in determining social security payments to Mr. Stuckey’s wife should not have been included in the amount of federal benefits used to reduce his state disability payments under…