State ex rel. Cobble v. Industrial Commission

Appellant-claimant, Bobby E. Cobble, was industrially injured on March 24, 1986. Shortly thereafter, claimant submitted information to his workers’ compensation claim file indicating that in the year preceding injury he had worked only twenty-seven weeks, missing the other twenty-five weeks due to illness or layoff.

On February 24, 1987, a claims examiner for appellee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation tentatively set claimant’s average weekly wage (“AWW”) at $136.79, by dividing claimant’s total wages for the year prior to injury by fifty-two weeks. That calculation was done on bureau form C-166…