United Fruit Co. v. Cardillo

WEINFELD, District Judge.

These are cross-motions for summary judgment in an action commenced by the plaintiff, a qualified self-insurer, to review and set aside an order of the Deputy Commissioner, United States Department of Labor, to the extent that such order awarded the sum of $20 per week for temporary partial disability to the claimant, the injured employee. -33 U.S.C.A. 901 et seq.

The employee, a longshoreman, while engaged in unloading bags of coffee aboard the employer’s vessel, was injured on March 22nd, 1949. He sustained fractures of two ribs, contusions of the back and laceration…