MITF Held Liable for Payment of Additional PTD Award

The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals ruled that a worker was entitled to receive permanent total disability benefits from the Multiple Injury Trust Fund when she had already received benefits for the full time statutorily allowed on a claim involving other injuries. Case: Butler v. Multiple Injury Trust Fund, No. 117403, 02/19/2020, published. Facts: Edith Butler received permanent total disability benefits from the Special Indemnity Fund from 1991 through 2007, when she turned 65. Butler was later adjudicated by the workers' compensation court as having undergone a change in condition f...