Claim of Rooney v. Barker's Department Store

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 29, 1982. This case involves a determination by the board which found one third of claimant’s over-all partial disability involving injury to the lower back area attributable to each of two work-related accidents, which occurred on October 20,1975 and May 13,1976, and one third attributable to a nonrelated accident in October of 1976. The sole issue before this court is whether the board erred in apportioning claimant’s reduced earning rates for the period September 26, 1977 to July 6, 1979 based on the above-stated…