(DOWNLOAD) "Baca V. Bueno Foods" by New Mexico Court of Appeals ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Baca V. Bueno Foods
- Author : New Mexico Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 08, 1988
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
Description
The Workers' Compensation Division's (WCD) hearing officer found that claimant, Josephine Baca, injured a finger and her back in an accident arising out of her employment with Bueno Foods and had been unable to perform job duties since then. He granted her judgment for temporary total disability benefits because her injury had not yet reached maximum medical improvement. We reverse the award for temporary total disability after considering: (1) the meaning of "maximum medical improvement" in the definition of "temporary total disability"; (2) whether there was substantial evidence to support the hearing officer's finding of no maximum medical improvement; and (3) the allocation of the burden of proof on that issue. The hearing officer also ordered respondents, Bueno Foods and Safeco Insurance Company, to pay the bills from two doctors Baca consulted. We reverse the judgment requiring respondents to pay the bills and remand for further findings with respect to the bill of one of the doctors.