Guyette v. Waste Systems Corp.

KEITH, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals holding that an injured employee with a permanent partial disability who obtains suitable employment, on his own initiative, within 90 days of the attainment of maximum medical improvement is still entitled to economic recovery compensation instead of impairment compensation because the employer did not procure the new employment.

In July 1984, Wayne D. Guyette sustained a low back injury arising out of his employment with Waste Systems Corporation. As a result of the injury, the employee was unable…