Legal Opinion
Vinyard v. Palo Alto, Inc.
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided November 2, 2012No. Docket 30,846; Docket 31,044PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KENNEDY, Judge.
{1} This worker’s compensation case poses the question of how to properly calculate a worker’s average weekly wage when the worker held two concurrent jobs, one for nine weeks and one for fourteen weeks. Wages from both jobs must be assessed for the calculation of the average weekly wage. The method of calculating the average weekly wage when each job has a different duration is the sole issue in this case.
{2} The Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) calculated the worker’s wage based on the roughly nine-week time period 1 that the two jobs overlapped, holding as a matter…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Kendrick v. Gackle Drilling CompanyNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1962
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