Bocalbos v. Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children

We granted petitioner-appellant Mila Bo-calbos’s (claimant) application for a writ of certiorari to review the opinion of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) in Bocalbos v. Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, No. 20719, mem. op., — Hawai'i -, — P.2d - (Haw.App. Aug. 7, 1998) [hereinafter the “ICA’s decision”]. In Bocalbos, claimant appealed a workers’ compensation decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board (LIRABO) that awarded claimant temporary total disability benefits for one year only, ordered claimant’s employer to pay for some, but not all, of…