Eastern Stainless Steel v. Nicholson

COLE, Judge.

At the circuit court appeal stage of workmen’s compensation proceedings, an employer and its insurer impleaded the Subsequent Injury Fund (“the Fund”—see Maryland Code (1957, 1985 Repl.Vol.), Art. 101, § 66). Pursuant to Art. 101, § 66(5), the circuit court then remanded the case to the Workmen’s Compensation Commission (“the Commission”) in order to afford the Fund an opportunity to defend the claim. Following an award in favor of the employee, the Fund appealed to the circuit court (which appeal named the employee, the employer and its insurers as defendants), and the clerk of…