Court Opinion

ID: 9683975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 13:41:40.808631+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:51.614910
License: Public Domain

OPINION ON PETITION TO REHEAR
HARBISON, Justice.
A petition to rehear has been filed on behalf of the Treasurer, as Custodian of the Second Injury Fund, pointing out that the record reveals that the claimant had received, prior to trial, certain temporary total disability benefits. Under Hedges Manufacturing Company v. Worley, 223 Tenn. 102, 442 S.W.2d 624 (1969), these temporary total disability benefits are not to be deducted from the compensation payable by the employer. The Treasurer, accordingly, asks this Court to modify its decree so as to limit the amount payable by the Second Injury Fund to 310 weeks, or until such time as the injured employee shall have received the maximum benefits of $22,000.00.
This contention appears to be well taken, and the opinion of the Court is modified to that extent, so that after the employer shall have paid the first 90 weeks of compensation according to schedule, the Second Injury Fund shall thereafter be responsible for the remaining 310 weeks at the same weekly rate, or until the statutory maximum of $22,000.00 has been paid the claimant.
FONES, C. J., and COOPER and HENRY, JJ., concur.
BROCK, J., not participating.