Hudson v. Kaiser Steel Corp.

OAKS, Justice:

The Industrial Commission ordered that amounts due an employee for permanent partial disability be offset by a previous overpayment of amounts due that employee for temporary total disability pertaining to the same injury. The employee challenges that decision in this petition for review.

The employee was injured on the job on October 4, 1979. From that date until he returned to work on August 3, 1981, his employer, Kaiser Steel Corp., paid him $210 per week for temporary total disability. These payments totalled $17,700. After a succession of hearings, the administrative law…