Pieske v. City of Minneapolis

Reviewing a decision of the Worker’s Compensation Court of Appeals on certiora-ri, we must decide whether an employee who is temporarily unemployable due to an injury which caused 15-percent permanent partial disability in both knees may continue to receive temporary total disability benefits after her physical condition has stabilized enough to permit assessment of permanent partial disability. We answer this question in the affirmative.

Employee worked for the city of Minneapolis as a library page from October 1973 until June 12, 1974. This job entailed frequent bending of the knees to…