Opinion ID: 852817
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: TTD Benefits after June 20, 2000

Text: Dial-X also contends that the Board erred in allowing Caskey to receive TTD benefits after June 20, 2000, the date the hearing before the single hearing member was continued for a third time on Caskey's motion. Dial-X argues for the adoption of a new rule estopping a worker's compensation plaintiff to continue to accrue ongoing TTD benefits while obtaining repeated continuances of Board hearings where an employer opposes payment of additional TTD on a good-faith basis. Administration of the Indiana worker's compensation law is assigned to the Worker's Compensation Board. [20] The Board is expressly authorized [t]o hear, determine, and review all claims for compensation under the Act. [21] Pursuant to its rulemaking authority, [22] the Board has adopted 631 IAC 1-1-10, which prohibits the granting of continuances except for good cause. Although requesting the adoption of a new estoppel rule, Dial-X is not asserting error in the granting of the continuances in this case. We decline to intrude upon the Board's authority to regulate its own proceedings.