Lockridge v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

I. NATURE OF THE CASE

While plaintiff was off work because of a work-related disabling injury, and while he was accepting wage-loss benefits from General Motors Corporation (gm) under worker’s compensation laws, plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident on April 3, 1995. For more than a year after his automobile accident, plaintiff continued to accept worker’s compensation wage-loss benefits from GM and, by doing so, represented to GM that he was entitled to those benefits because his work-related injury continued to prevent *509him from working. Plaintiff also sought work-loss benefits from…