Lakey v. Kerrian S

Safeco Insurance Company appeals a Workers’ Compensation Court order which awarded temporary total disability benefits to the claimant, Carol Lakey. The two issues on appeal are (1) whether substantial evidence supports the lower court’s finding that claimant’s knee condition is compensable, and (2) whether substantial evidence supports the court’s finding that claimant had not reached maximum healing. We affirm.

In July 1983, while working as a shoe salesperson at Herbergers Department Store in Great Falls, claimant suffered an injury to her right knee. The injury arose out of and in the…