California Court of Appeal

Respondent-board's holding that it had no jurisdiction to award petitioner additional temporary total disability benefits for a period commencing more than five years after the date of his injury is annulled as: 1) petitioner filed a timely petition to reopen and his new and further disability commenced within five years of the date of his injury; and 2) there was no need to award benefits earlier, as respondent employer was making voluntary payments.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2007
• Published 05/31/2007

Judges

• KLINE, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sam Salmon, Law Offices of Sam Salmon, for Petitioner, Mike Sarabi.


• For Appellees:
  
• John E. Durr, Law Offices of Mullen & Filippi, Santa Rosa, for Respondents, Narsi's Hofbrau, Farmers Insurance Company., No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.