Smith v. Civic Center Chrysler

Civic Center Chrysler and its compensation insurer seek review of a decision awarding Richard Smith compensation for temporary total disability from August 23, 1976, to December 14,1976, and continuing. 1 The sole issue is whether the finding that employee is temporarily totally disabled has substantial evidentiary support in view of the entire record. We conclude that it has.

Employee, an automobile body repairman and painter, sustained injury to his low back in the course of his employment on May 2, 1972. He was temporarily totally disabled for almost 4 weeks, for which he received…