Graphic Packaging, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge FRIEDMAN.

Graphic Packaging, Inc. (Employer) and George Zink (Claimant) have filed cross-petitions for review of the May 3, 2006, order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) affirming the decision of a workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) to award benefits to Claimant for a closed period and to grant Claimant’s penalty petition. We affirm in part, and we reverse in part.

Employer hired Claimant, a Vietnam War veteran, as a maintenance mechanic pursuant to the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (Veterans’ Act). 1 During his military service,…