Foster Wheeler Constructors, Inc. v. Parker

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board requiring employer to pay temporary total disability (TTD) compensation for a seven-week period, from June 7,1994, to July 28,1994, and assessing a penalty for employer’s unreasonable delay in paying the TTD. The crux of employer’s case is that it should not be required to pay TTD because, sometime after the seven-week period, it was determined that claimant already had become medically stationary and thereby became ineligible for the benefits. Claimant argues, and the Board held, that it does not matter that claimant later…