State ex rel. Western Electric Co. v. Coyer

AT&T’s “two-hundred-week motion” asked the commission to expressly designate claimant’s disability as temporary or permanent. The commission continued temporary total disability compensation but did not specifically indicate that claimant’s condition was temporary. This deficiency led the appellate court to return the cause to the commission to definitively address the permanency question. We affirm that decision.

Claimant suggests that by continuing temporary total compensation, the commission inherently declared that her condition was temporary. We disagree. At the time the relevant order…