Roland Whytock Co., Inc. v. Wilson

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter is before the Supreme Court on a petition for a writ of certiorari to review a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Commission. In that decree the commission decided that the Department of Workers’ Compensation has no jurisdiction to hear a petition to reduce payments while an appeal of the original award is still pending. For the reasons that follow, we disagree.

In this case the employee had filed a petition for benefits in the Department of Workers’ Compensation arising out of a back injury that occurred on May 6, 1986. After a hearing on June 20, 1986,…