Volk v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant seeks judicial review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board which denied his claim for penalties and attorney fees for SAIF’s allegedly premature closure of his case and termination of his temporary total disability and medical benefits. The referee had awarded penalties and attorney fees. Claimant asserts that SAIF terminated benefits before his attending physician released him for a return to his regular employment and before there was a determination order finding him medically stationary. SAIF therefore acted, claimant argues, before it had the legal right to do so. We…