Taylor v. Department of Labor & Industries

Mitchell, J.—

Norman Taylor sustained an accidental injury while engaged in extrahazardous employment on September 1, 1931. The department of labor and industries recognized his claim, and paid time loss until March 27, 1932, at which time his claim was closed with an award of four degrees permanent partial disability.

Within a few days, a letter from the claimant’s doctor, written on behalf of the claimant, was, in effect, treated as an application to reconsider the closing of the claim. Thereafter, April 12, 1932, the chief medical advisor of the department made a personal examination of the…