Supreme Court Gets Employer's Answer to Constitutional Challenge to TTD Cap

An Oklahoma employer on Wednesday filed its response to a worker’s constitutional challenge to the state’s statutory cap on the amounts payable as temporary total disability benefits, asserting that the issue isn’t anything the Oklahoma Supreme Court needs to address. Section 45(A)(1) of the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act sets the weekly TTD rate for a worker at the lesser of 70% of his average weekly wage, or 70% of the statewide average weekly wage. Attorneys Clyde Muchmore and Melanie Rughani of Crowe & Dunlevy assert that it was wit...