Rath v. Perlman Rocque Co.

COYNE, Justice.

The Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals affirmed an award of compensation to employee based upon findings that he had sustained an employment-related injury to his low back, in the nature of a permanent aggravation of a prior injury, and that he was earning an average weekly wage of $356. It also affirmed the compensation judge’s refusal to deduct $800 from the award as reimbursement to the insurer for its payment of charges made by an orthopedic surgeon when the employee missed two examinations scheduled by the employer. Here the employer-insurer challenges those findings…