Court Won't Reconsider Calculation of Benefits for Worker With 2 Jobs

The Montana Workers’ Compensation Court denied a request to reconsider a decision awarding temporary total disability benefits based on a worker missing time from one of his two jobs because he now says he missed time from both. The court on Wednesday rejected the argument that it overlooked a material fact, saying that the parties themselves never raised the issue, even after reviewing a proposed order. “For this court to have ‘overlooked’ the fact that Perea worked at Life in Bloom until just before his surgery, the parties would have had to introduce that fact...