Collins v. McInnes Mines

LAMBERT, Justice.

In this Worker’s Compensation case, the issue we address is whether an employer against whom a 100% disability award is adjudged is entitled to a credit for sums the disabled employee receives pursuant to a prior unrelated Worker’s Compensation award from another state. Affirming the circuit court, the Court of Appeals held that the employer was entitled to such credit. As this issue is of first impression (CR 76.20(1)), we granted discretionary review and now reverse.

In 1963, while living and working in the State of Ohio, appellant suffered a work-related back and stomach…