Thomaston Mills, Inc. v. Kierbow

Beasley, Judge.

We granted the employer/self-insurer Thomaston Mills, Inc., discretionary appeal from the superior court’s affirmance of an award of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation to consider the company’s contention that it should have been permitted to suspend payments of temporary total disability weekly wage benefits to claimant *58Kierbow because she intended to voluntarily retire from the work force.

Kierbow, age seventy-one, chose to take early retirement from Thomaston Mills in 1979 when she was sixty-three. She participated in a retiree program which allowed her to continue to…