Taylor v. Nalley's Fine Foods

Robert L. Taylor, an employee of Nalley’s Fine Foods, a self-insured employer, appeals a summary judgment affirming the cancellation of a penalty for Nalley’s delay in payment of time-loss compensation benefits on his worker’s compensation claim. We hold that when a jury determined that Nalley’s was responsible for Taylor’s low back condition by verdict in 1999, Nalley’s obligation to begin payments commenced. Nalley’s could not wait until July 2000 for the appeal period to expire from the Department of Labor and Industries’ order to pay the claim. The statutes that provide for a Department…