Hauling v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge LEADBETTER.

The present appeal raises the issue of whether the employer’s workers’ compensation carrier must pay interest on the amount it reimburses employer for wage loss benefits that the employer paid out of its own funds prior to the grant of its employee’s claim petition. Because we conclude that employer is entitled to the interest, we reverse in part the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board).

This case, which has reached this court on appeal once before, has quite an extensive history. We will contain our recitation of the facts to those pertinent to…