Wee Wisdom Montessori School v. Vickers

BARFIELD, Judge.

The employer and carrier (EC) appeal a workers’ compensation order which, inter alia, awards the claimant retroactive housekeeping and attendant care benefits from August 26, 1977 until the date the first formal claim for such benefits was filed, April 14, 1988. We agree with the EC that the Judge of Compensation Claims erred in finding that the EC knew or should have known of the claimant’s need for such care during this period.

Before the specific claim for attendant care was made April 14, 1988, the EC had no actual or constructive knowledge of claimant’s need for such care.…