Legal Opinion
Little v. Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided April 29, 1997No. 87877PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OP ALA, Justice.
The dispositive question we are asked to decide today is whether an insurer who has issued a compensation policy may contest (before the Workers’ Compensation Court) the insured’s status as a covered employer. We answer in the negative.
Harley Little (Little or claimant) sought benefits after he was broadsided by another motorist while driving back to work for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (Nation). Nation had secured a workers’ compensation policy from the State Insurance Fund (Fund). Fund’s answer denies that (a) the accident arose out of and in the course of Little’s…
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