Nix v. State Accident Insurance Fund

Claimant seeks judicial review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order reducing the referee’s award of compensation for temporary disability. He also objects to the Board’s setting aside the referee’s award of a penalty and attorney fees. The referee awarded them because of respondent’s unreasonable delay in paying interim compensation. We affirm the Board’s reduction of compensation for temporary disability and reverse its order setting aside the award of penalties and attorney fees.

On February 20, 1984, claimant was injured in an on-the-job accident while driving employer’s truck. Employer…