Parnell v. State ex rel. Wyoming Worker's Compensation Division

CARDINE, Justice.

The principal issue in this worker’s compensation case is whether an employee who receives a lump sum permanent partial disability award and subsequently sustains an increase of incapacity due to the original injury is precluded from receiving temporary total disability benefits unless his permanent partial disability has increased. Another issue, raised by the State, is whether the district court’s denial of appellant’s temporary total disability claim should be upheld because the record contains insufficient evidence of appellant’s increase of incapacity.

We reverse.

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