Shogren v. Bethesda Lutheran Medical Center

WAHL, Justice.

Employee seeks review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals denying her claim for temporary total disability benefits based on the finding of that court that she unreasonably refused her employer’s offer of a job within her physician’s restriction against lifting more than 30 pounds. The compensation judge had determined that her refusal was not unreasonable, that she had made a reasonably diligent but unsuccessful effort to find employment after being discharged on March 15, 1982, by the employer, and that she thus had suffered temporary total disability…