Cutright v. Weyerhaeuser Co.

*293JONES, J.

The issue is whether workers’ compensation claimants are entitled to temporary total disability1 benefits for aggravation of their original compensable injuries, where the claimants had voluntarily removed themselves from the labor market, i.e., “retired,” at the time of the aggravation of their prior work-related injuries. We hold that the claimants are not entitled to compensation for temporary total disability.

In these consolidated cases, the facts are undisputed. In each case the claimant sustained a disabling compensable injury.2 In each case the claimant was awarded…