Claim of Smith v. Community Resource Center

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 27, 1999, which ruled that payment of workers’ compensation benefits to claimant continue at a tentative rate.

When claimant sustained a work-related injury in March 1998, the employer continued to pay her full wages and did not contest her claim for workers’ compensation benefits. In May 1998, the employer’s consulting physician examined claimant and filed a report stating that claimant was no longer disabled. Thereafter, the employer stopped paying benefits. Claimant apparently returned to work for several weeks in June…