Bender v. Deflon Anderson Corporation

OPINION

WALSH, Judge.

This appeal from the Industrial Accident Board (hereinafter “the Board”) raises the issue of the Board’s authority to require an injured employee, receiving total disability benefits, to submit to vocational rehabilitation as a condition of continuing benefits.

The facts are not in serious dispute. The claimant, Michael J. Bender, (hereinafter “the claimant”) sustained a serious leg injury on January 18, 1967 when he fell from a scaffold while working as a carpenter for Deflon Anderson Corporation (hereinafter “the employer”). On February 13, 1967 claimant and employer…