Reynolds v. Special Indemnity Fund

OP ALA, Justice.

The dispositive issue on certiorari is whether the worker’s reopening claim against the Special Indemnity Fund [Fund] was correctly determined to have been time barred because the critical antecedent motion for a supplemental award against her employer upon an asserted change of condition had not been timely brought. We answer in the affirmative and reinstate the trial tribunal’s order denying claimant a supplemental award against the Fund.

Claimant, who was a physically impaired person with a pre-existing 18.5% impairment of the body, sustained a compensable back injury on…