Electone, Inc. v. Walsh

THOMPSON, Judge.

The employer/carrier (E/C) appeal a compensation order awarding wage loss benefits and assert, among other things, that the claimant failed to demonstrate that her wage loss resulted from her compensa-ble injury. We agree and reverse.

The claimant sustained a compensable neck injury on March 9,1981, and remained off the job for approximately a week thereafter. She then returned to work and worked steadily at her usual job until July 23, 1981, when she quit work in order to travel “up north” to visit her elderly and ill father. According to the claimant, before leaving to visit…