Edward Reed v. Exel Logistics, Inc.

Justice Ketchum :

*513In this appeal from the Workers' Compensation Board of Review, an employer paid temporary total disability benefits to a claimant for almost two-and-a-half years while the claimant was undergoing medical and physical rehabilitation. Months later, the employer discovered it had paid the claimant benefits for an extra 156 days beyond the date the employer was statutorily required to pay. The employer then declared those 156 days an "overpayment" and sought to recover the benefits from the claimant.

The Board of Review concluded that, under our workers' compensation laws, the…