King v. State Compensation Insurance Fund

delivered the Opinion of the Court..

Sonja King (King) appeals from the judgment entered by the Workers’ Compensation Court which concluded that she is not entitled to an increase in her permanent partial disability benefits. We affirm.

The sole issue presented on appeal is whether the Workers’ Compensation Court erred in concluding that King’s permanent partial disability benefits cannot be based on wages from fewer than four pre-injury pay periods.

BACKGROUND

King went to work in the bakery department at Super 1 Foods (Super 1) in Hamilton, Montana, in December of 1991. She was laid off in…