G. Attorney fees paid out of the workers injury settlement award from the Multiple Injury Trust Fund are 20% of the gross award. The payments to the Work Comp attorney are paid out of the fund in periodic installment the Work Injury Lawyer receiving every fifth check. H.
G. Eighty percent (80%) of all sums held by the State Treasurer to the credit of the Multiple Injury Trust Fund may by order of the MITF Director be invested in or loaned on the pledge of any of the securities in which a state bank may invest the monies deposited therein by the State Treasurer; or may be deposited in state or national banks or trust companies upon insured time deposit …
These four orders in four different proceedings required the Multiple Injury Trust Fund (Fund) to make periodic payments to injured workers and their lawyers for attorney's fees. The four claimants in these proceedings died, and the Fund stopped making payments to their lawyers upon determining an amount equal to eighty (80) weeks of compensation had been paid or …
Attorney fees for PTD vested and paid periodically with recoupment at 20% of each weekly check to claimant. (Previously, the attorney fee was paid in a lump sum with recoupment
After being awarded benefits for injury and re-injury in 1997 and in 2000, claimant-respondent Anthony Cellino filed a request in 2003 for payment of principal and post award interest. He also sought certification for a class action with the Workers' Compensation Court to establish a class of others who had claims of unpaid interest on benefits awarded against The Multiple Injury …
In 1943, the Oklahoma legislature created the Multiple Injury Trust Fund (MITF), formerly the Special Indemnity Fund, with a dual purpose: to encourage the hiring of individuals with a preexisting disability and to protect those employers from liability for the preexisting disability. It does so by carrying the responsibility for a portion of the benefits if the disabled worker suffers a subsequent injury.
Multiple injury liability was shifted back to employers from 2000 to 2005. Known as the “full responsibility rule”, employers paid for both on-the-job injuries and multiple injury claims, which, not surprisingly, proved unpopular with respondent employers and their insurers. MITF was reinstated in 2005. While the troublesome PPD liability was repealed, many qualifications for PTD benefits were also repealed. Minimum benefits were increased by ten (10) years, and statutory authority to close PTD claims (for discounted lump sums) was repealed.
MITF’s mission is a fiduciary one; that is “to protect the Fund within the scope of its statutory authority and to pay benefits as ordered by the court”. MITF has an expert staff with over 100 cumulative years of workers’ compensation experience. History however has proven MITF needs sound legislation to survive. It cannot rely on a changing environment for stability, be it general reform to workers’ compensation, or the drift of the judiciary. Without proper funding and clear statutory limits, like many other funds nationwide, Oklahoma’s MITF will fail; and multiple injury liability will return to respondent employers under the full responsibility rule.
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