Legal Opinion
Baca v. Bueno Foods
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided December 8, 1988No. 10542PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARTZ, Judge.
The Workers’ Compensation Division’s (WCD) hearing officer found that claimant, Josephine Baca, injured a finger and her back in an accident arising out of her employment with Bueno Foods and had been unable to perform job duties since then. He granted her judgment for temporary total disability benefits because her injury had not yet reached maximum medical improvement. We reverse the award for temporary total disability after considering: (1) the meaning of “maximum medical improvement” in the definition of “temporary total disability”; (2) whether there was substantial…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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