High Court Declines Jurisdiction Over Constitutional Challenge to TTD Cap, Subrogation Dispute

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has declined an opportunity to review a dispute involving subrogation issues and a challenge to the constitutionality of the state’s cap on temporary total disability benefits. Late last month, Jason Thomas Talbot filed a petition with the court, arguing that the Administrative Workers’ Compensation Act’s 104-week limit on TTD is an arbitrary cutoff that is not rationally related to legitimate state interests and that it impermissibly shifts the economic burden of an industrial accident to injured workers like him. He asked the...