Candee v. State Accident Insurance Fund

The State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board ordering payment of temporary total disability compensation to claimant for a period during which she received payments directly from her non-complying employer and, further, ordering SAIF to pay a penalty and attorney’s fee for unreasonable delay in making payment. Claimant cross-appeals that part of the order which denies her permanent partial disability compensation.

SAIF Appeal

On May 12, 1976, claimant, then a bartender, suffered a compensable injury when she was struck in the head with a…