Poole v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

STONE (S. J.), P. J.

We review an order in which the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board) determined the Rehabilitation Bureau (Bureau) lacked jurisdiction to award further vocational rehabilitation benefits because the Bureau had previously closed applicant’s case and his request for further benefits was filed more than five years after the date of injury. Since the record reflects that as a matter of law the Bureau intended to suspend rather than close applicant’s case, we conclude the Bureau had jurisdiction to award further benefits.

On April 6, 1979, applicant sustained an…