National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. And Fireman's Fund American Insurance Co. v. Emma J. (Evans) Bonner and U. S. Dept. Of Labor

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to hold as a matter of law that an ALJ must assume that an employee’s earlier, lower wages would have continued when the employee started higher paying work shortly before being injured
• ALJ must consider employee's previous earnings in the job at which he was injured and either (i) previous earnings of similarly situated employees or (ii) his other employment
• ALJ must consider employee’s previous earnings in the job at which he was injured and either (i) previous earnings of similarly situated employees or (ii) his other employment
• “If the factfinder actually chose to give little or no [w]eight to one of the two factors, ... that decision would not be reversed so long as both were considered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).