Garland v. Anaconda Co.

This is an appeal from the Workers’ Compensation Court by the claimant who was denied temporary total disability payments. Claimant Douglas Garland appeals and presents one issue for this Court’s review:

Whether the Workers’ Compensation Court erred in denying temporary total compensation benefits to an employee who suffered an injury in the course and scope of his employment?

The Anaconda Company, a self-insured employer, refused payments because the employee changed doctors without the consent of the employer.

Douglas Garland was injured in the course and scope of his employment at the…