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McGOUGH v. SPECIAL INDEM. FUND

No. 86829.

939 P.2d 1136 (1997)

Orleene McGOUGH, Petitioner, v. SPECIAL INDEMNITY FUND and The Workers' Compensation Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bob Burke, Oklahoma City, for Petitioner.

Henry A. Meyer, III, Pray, Walker, Jackman, Williamson & Marlar, Oklahoma City, for Respondents.

SIMMS, Justice:

We are called upon to decide in this review proceeding the issue of whether a claim against the Special Indemnity Fund for the combined disability caused by two separately-adjudicated compensable injuries may be predicated on a worsening of the earlier injury. We hold that it may.

On June 8, 1990, the claimant suffered a work-related accident which produced a traumatic injury to her right shoulder...

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