New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Brown

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The first question for decision is whether the director erred in entering an award allowing compensation at a stated sum per week for “temporary total disability beginning 7 days after the date of injury and continuing during the period of disability.” Code (Ann. Supp.) § 114-404 provides as follows: “When the incapacity to work resulting from an injury is total, the employer shall pay or cause to be paid, as hereinafter provided for, to the employee during such total incapacity a weekly compensation equal to one-half of his average wages . . and in no…