Willamette Ind. v. State Worker's Comp.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “This holding is supported by the very purpose of the statute which is to encourage a direct employer [independent contractor] to hire persons with permanent partial disabilities. This purpose would be defeated if statutory employers, who may eventually have to make worker’s compensation payments to an injured employee, are prevented from obtaining reimbursement by the Second Injury Fund because only the direct employer had actual knowledge of any such pre-existing injury. Should the [Second Injury] board’s interpretation of the statute be adopted, those in the position of statutory employers may encourage direct employers 'not to employ individuals with pre-existing partial disabilities. This would defeat the very purpose behind this statute. 15 (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 693 So. 2d 1274 - Employers National Insurance v. Second Injury Board

2. “The ankle injury without the preexisting left upper extremity disability would not have preclude[d] Rodisch from obtaining employment.... However, a combination of these injuries prevents Rodisch from participating in gainful employment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 857 So. 2d 407 - Nabors Drilling USA v. Davis

3. “affects the most usual signification of the word. We therefore hold that the two injuries have”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 857 So. 2d 407 - Nabors Drilling USA v. Davis