Case Name: In the Matter of the Claim of Michael D. ARNDT, Petitioner, v. ELECTRONIC METAL PRODUCTS, INC., State Compensation Insurance Authority, The Industrial Claim Appeals Office of the State of Colorado and Director, Division of Labor, Respondents
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Decision Date: 1989-12-04
Citations: 783 P.2d 290
Docket Number: No. 88SC323
Parties: In the Matter of the Claim of Michael D. ARNDT, Petitioner, v. ELECTRONIC METAL PRODUCTS, INC., State Compensation Insurance Authority, The Industrial Claim Appeals Office of the State of Colorado and Director, Division of Labor, Respondents.
Judges: MULLARKEY, J., does not participate.
Reporter: Pacific Reporter 2d
Volume: 783
Pages: 290–291

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Claim of Michael D. ARNDT, Petitioner, v. ELECTRONIC METAL PRODUCTS, INC., State Compensation Insurance Authority, The Industrial Claim Appeals Office of the State of Colorado and Director, Division of Labor, Respondents.
No. 88SC323.
Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.
Dec. 4, 1989.
Richard T. Goold, Susan D.S. Knisley, Denver, Colo., for petitioner.
Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Michael J. Steiner, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Carolyn A. Boyd, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, Colo., for respondents Electronic Metal Products, Inc., and the Indus. Claim Appeals Office of the State of Colo. and Director, Div. of Labor.
Paul Tochtrop, Denver, Colo., for respondent State Compensation Ins. Authority.
Robert A. Weinberger, P.C., Michael E. Harr, Denver, Colo., for amicus curiae Colo. Defense Lawyers Ass’n.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We granted certiorari to review the unpublished decision of the court of appeals in Arndt v. Electronic Metal Products, Inc., No. 87CA1428 (Colo.App., May 26, 1988). The court of appeals held that Michael Arndt, a worker who sustained an industrial injury prior to July 1, 1987, and who was ordered by an administrative law judge to undergo a vocational rehabilitation evaluation after attaining maximum medical improvement, was not entitled to temporary disability benefits for the time period following maximum medical improvement but prior to an administrative decision on whether vocational rehabilitation was necessary to render Arndt fit for a remunerative occupation. In accordance with our decision in Allee v. Contractors, Inc., 783 P.2d 273, (Colo.1989), we reverse the judgment of the court of appeals and remand the case to that court with directions to return the case to the Industrial Claim Appeals Panel for further proceedings consistent with our decision in Allee.
MULLARKEY, J., does not participate.