Appeal of HCA Parkland Medical Center

The petitioner, HCA Parkland Medical Center (Parkland), appeals the decision of the New Hampshire Compensation Appeals Board (board) awarding concurrent earnings, see RSA 281-A:15, III (Supp. 1997), to the respondent, David Graves. We reverse and remand.

Graves suffered a disabling accident in October 1993 at the Parkland Medical Center in Derry, New Hampshire, while working as a facilities technician. At that time, Graves held a second job as a press operator for Matheson Higgins Congress Press (Matheson Higgins) in Woburn, Massachusetts. The parties stipulated that Graves’ combined average…