Twin City Fire Insurance Co. v. Cortez

REYNOLDS, Justice.

The insurance carrier appeals from a judgment maturing an award of workers’ compensation death benefit weekly payments because of a failure to continue timely payments and decreeing a lump sum payment without discount, together with penalty and attorney’s fees. We affirm.

By a final 18 March 1975 award of the Industrial Accident Board, Twin City Fire Insurance Company was ordered to pay workers’ compensation benefits as a result of the death of employee Pedro Cortez. The Board ordered that $63.00 be paid weekly, apportioned: $31.50 to Anita Cortez, the surviving widow, until…