Claim of McNulty v. Americana Inn

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 15, 1978. Claimant sustained an injury to his back on February 4, 1977, when he fell 14 feet from the roof of his employer’s motel where he had been effecting repairs. Prior to this accident, claimant had experienced a long history of back troubles which required four operations and numerous periods of hospitalization. The employer’s insurance carrier paid claimant $119.47 a week for temporary total disability as a result of the accident until August 15, 1977. Following that date, the Administrative Law Judge decided…