hearings would substantially delay payment of legitimate claims and undereut intent of Wyoming's Act by forcing employers to fully litigate all causation issues at initial proceeding). If collateral estoppel were applicable to the factual findings made during proceedings for disability benefits, the underlying policies supporting quick adjudication of such benefits, which involve narrow issues of law and afford a limited remedy, would be severely hampered. While not articulating a consistent rationale for doing so, courts addressing this issue in other jurisdictions have similarly refused to treat the causation of permanent injuries as having been resolved by determinations of causation relative to temporary injuries. See, e.g., Betts v. Townsends, Inc., 765 A.2d 531, 535 (Del.2000) (<HOLDING>); In re Bailey, 769 A.2d 360, 362, 2001 NH.
holding that a totally disabled claimant whose preexisting osteoarthritis was temporarily aggravated by her employment was entitled to temporary total disability benefits but not permanent total disability benefits because there was no causal connection between the temporary aggravation and the permanent disability holding evidence of a 13 permanent partial disability insufficient to establish disability for purposes of ada holding that workers compensation statutes do not prohibit claimant from receiving permanent partial disability benefits from prior accident concurrently with temporary total disability benefits from subsequent injury holding that determination of causation in permanent disability hearing not barred by estoppel because wlhether an industrial accident caused temporary total disability or permanent partial disability are two distinct questions holding that disability pension benefits could be offset against both temporary and total permanent disability compensation benefits