Legal Opinion

Chronister-Ozbirn v. Multiple Injury Trust Fund

Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma

Decided September 28, 2001No. 95524PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

ADAMS, Presiding Judge:

T1 This review proceeding involves a claim against the Multiple Injury Trust Fund (Fund) and presents the question whether a so-called Crumby1 finding that Claimant Freda Chronister Ozbirn had a twenty percent pre-existing impairment to her back at the time of her most recent compensable injury allows the Workers' Compensation Court to combine that impairment with others to find Claimant permanently totally disabled from the combination of all the impairments. Because Claimant's most recent injury occurred prior to September 1, 1992, we conclude it does not and…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. J. C. Penney Co. v. CrumbySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1978
  2. Special Indemnity Fund v. CarsonSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1993
  3. Truelock v. City of Del CitySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1998
  4. Special Indemnity Fund v. DavisCourt of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma · 1996

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. MULTIPLE INJURY TRUST FUND v. MACKEYSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2017
  2. MULTIPLE INJURY TRUST FUND v. MACKEYSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2017
  3. MULTIPLE INJURY TRUST FUND v. MACKEYSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2017

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