Spera v. State ex rel. Wyoming Worker's Compensation Division

CARDINE, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case of first impression in Wyoming. We must decide whether an employee’s temporary total disability award should be suspended when he is imprisoned. We will reverse the district court’s suspension of payments and hold that a worker’s incarceration does not, in and of itself, require a suspension of temporary total disability payments.

Appellant, Robert A. Spera, was injured in an industrial accident on October 26, 1984, while employed by Apollo Drilling Company. His fractured right ankle was *1156expected to heal by February 1985, and he was…