Wade Insulation, Inc. v. Visnovsky

BERGER, Justice.

This appeal involves an Industrial Accident Board decision granting an employer’s petition to terminate a claimant’s temporary total disability benefits. The sole question is whether claimant was required to conduct a job search before his treating physician expressly released him to return to work. The answer is very fact-specific. In this case, claimant’s doctor had never directly ordered him not to work; the surgery that temporarily disabled claimant apparently was successful; and the normal recuperative period had long passed. Under these circumstances, we hold that…