2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 85A. Administrative Workers' Compensation System
§85A-30. Physically impaired persons - Adjudications of Multiple Injury Trust Fund claims.

A. For the purposes of Sections 31 through 35 of this act, the term "physically impaired person" means a person who, as a result of accident, disease, birth, military action, or any other cause, has suffered:

1. The loss of the sight of one eye;

2. The loss by amputation of the whole or a part of a member of the body;

3. The loss of use or partial loss of use of a member such as is obvious and apparent from observation or examination by a person who is not skilled in the medical profession; or

4. Any previous adjudications of disability adjudged and determined by the Workers' Compensation Court or the Workers’ Compensation Commission or any disability resulting from separately adjudicated injuries and adjudicated occupational diseases even though arising at the same time. Provided, that any adjudication of preexisting disability to a part of the body shall not be combinable for purposes of the Multiple Injury Trust Fund unless that part of the body was deemed to have been injured in the claim being adjudicated.

B. This section shall apply to all adjudications of Multiple Injury Trust Fund claims heard by the Commission on or after the effective date of this act.

Added by Laws 2013, c. 208, § 30, eff. Feb. 1, 2014.