Plaintiffs Seek Injunction Preventing State from Diverting Money from Multiple Injury Fund

Oklahoma state lawmakers are facing a familiar opponent, but this time instead of attacking the constitutionality of their 2013 workers' compensation reforms, he's challenging a 2015 bill that transfers money from the state's Multiple Injury Trust Fund to pay for operating costs of the Workers' Comp Commission and Court of Existing Claims. Attorneys Bob Burke and Richard Bell have filed a lawsuit in Oklahoma County District Court charging that state legislators essentially raided the MITF at the end of this year's session to help pay down a $600 million state budget shortf...