Miller v. Sealy Furniture Company

ESSOM V. RICKS, Jr., Judge, Specially Assigned.

The question presented in this appeal is whether the Workers’ Compensation Commission may order that an overpayment of temporary total disability benefits be deducted from the payment of permanent partial disability benefits subsequently awarded for the same disability.

On January 12, 1989, after working for eight years as an upholsterer for Sealy Furniture (Employer), Brenda F. Miller (Claimant) became disabled as a result of carpel tunnel syndrome, an occupational disease. She filed a claim with the Workers’ Compensation Commission and was…