Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. Rule

WILHOIT, Judge.

This appeal is from an opinion of the Workers’ Compensation Board affirming an award by an administrative law judge (ALJ) which required the appellant/employer to pay temporary total disability benefits to the ap-pellee/claimant Betty S. Rule. The employer maintains that all of the claimant’s disability from October 11,1991, the date on which she was last able to work, should have been treated as permanent total disability.

The claimant was found to be totally disabled as the result of a work-related injury she suffered on January 19, 1990, causing 85 percent disability in…