Preferred Aircraft Painting v. Duarte

JOANOS, Judge.

In this worker’s compensation case, Preferred Aircraft Painting and CNA Insurance Companies, the employer and carrier, appealed a final order of the deputy commissioner. They argued that (1) the deputy commissioner erred in awarding catastrophic temporary total disability benefits, and (2) the deputy commissioner erred by including gratuities in the computation of claimant’s average weekly wage.

Claimant, Alfredo N. Duarte, is a 32-year-old Guatemalan male with a third grade education and fair grasp of the English language. Claimant was employed as a painter of airplanes, for…