Cockle v. Dept. of Labor and Industries

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• recognizing that health care coverage is frequently a significant part of an employee's compensation package and should be considered a wage
• recognizing that health care coverage is frequently a significant part of an employee’s compensation package and should be considered a wage
• recognizing employer-provided health care benefits as “core, nonfringe benefits” provided in consideration for services rendered for purposes of calculating lost wages in the workers’ compensation statute
• stating that words are not to be given their ordinary meaning when a contrary intent is manifest, for example, when a statute expressly expands the \ordinary dictionary meaning\ of a term and \[t]hat definitional expansion clearly removes the term from its arguably more common usage....\
• stating that words are not to be given their ordinary meaning when a contrary intent is manifest, for example, when a statute expressly expands the “ordinary dictionary meaning” of a term and “[t]hat definitional expansion clearly removes the term from its arguably more common usage.”
• requiring that employer-paid health benefits be included wage calculation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).