HAMMON STATE LINE v. Stinson

Employer petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that held that the doctrine of claim preclusion bars claimant from challenging the wage rate used to calculate his temporary total disability benefits, but not his permanent total disability benefits. Claimant cross-petitions for review of the same order.

Claimant was injured in an automobile accident on December 17,1982. Employer accepted his workers’ compensation claim. Although claimant had regularly worked overtime before the accident, employer calculated his temporary total disability compensation at a rate that…