Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Cornell

Employer seeks review of a decision of the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services (the Director) ordering employer to reimburse claimant $69.70 that he spent in taxi fares for transportation to medical appointments. Claimant cross-petitions, seeking employer-paid attorney fees for having prevailed on that issue. We affirm on the petition and the cross-petition.

Claimant, who is in his early 70’s, was compensably injured in 1992 while working for employer. At the original claim closure in 1994, he was awarded permanent partial disability for a 37 percent impairment to his…