Safeway Stores v. Owsley

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board affirming and adopting the referee’s determination that claimant is entitled to benefits for temporary total disability and to a penalty and attorney fees for employer’s alleged unreasonable termination of benefits.

Claimant suffered a compensable injury to her little finger at a time when she was earning $3.67 per hour. After two surgeries, she returned to work part-time, and employer began paying temporary partial disability benefits. In January, 1985, and in June, 1985, claimant received increases in her hourly pay as a…