Dawes v. Summers

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board. She assigns as error the Board’s denial of a penalty and attorney fees for employer’s failure to pay temporary disability compensation, its allowance of recovery of an overpayment against future awards of permanent disability and its finding that claimant had been terminated for reasons unrelated to her injury. We affirm.

Claimant was released to return to work after sustaining a compensable injury. She returned to her job as a housekeeper and cook on April 1, 1987. Four days later, she was terminated. She had faded to…