Gilmore v. Little Jack's Steak House

ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

The Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals found that employee had contracted the occupational disease of contact dermatitis of his hands on November 5, 1976, that he had been totally disabled thereby for 8 weeks, and that he was permanently unable to return to his occupation as a bartender and therefore in need of retraining. Based upon those findings, the court awarded employee compensation for 8 weeks’ temporary total disability and retraining benefits for a period not to exceed 156 weeks, the duration of a program in accounting and business administration for which he…