Barr v. Stroh Brewery

Defendants appeal by leave granted an opinion and order of the Workers’ Compensation Appellate Commission refusing to allow defendants to coordinate a lump sum distribution to plaintiff. We reverse and remand.

This case was submitted to the magistrate on a stipulation of facts. Plaintiff was employed by Stroh Brewery as a driver/salesman. In November, 1982, he was injured on the job. Defendants began paying plaintiff wage loss benefits of $266.48 a week in February, 1983. In 1984, Stroh’s divested itself of plaintiff’s employing unit and terminated its pension plan for those employees.…