Purvis v. United Parcel Service

Claimant, Sandra Purvis, appeals from a workers’ compensation order denying her claim for an adjustment in her average weekly wage (AWW), interest and penalties, past due payments of compensation and reasonable attorney’s fees and costs. Purvis argues that the judge of compensation claims (JCC) erroneously determined that her industrial injury of December 6, 1991, was only a temporary exacerbation of a prior work-related injury suffered on October 15, 1990, and not a new, separate injury, and that if the JCC had correctly decided that she sustained a second industrial injury, she would be…