Austin v. Consolidated Freightways

Claimant seeks review of a Board order which affirmed the referee’s determination that employer reasonably suspended time loss benefits after learning that claimant was receiving income from self-employment.

Claimant suffered a compensable back injury on December 15,1981, while working as a truck driver. Although he had not been released for work, on March 3, 1982, he opened a lawn mower repair business, which he had been operating as a hobby out of his home since 1975. On March 18 and 19, 1982, employer’s investigators observed claimant lifting, bending and doing his share of the work in the…