Mitchell v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Miller, Justice:

This appeal by the claimant, Roger Mitchell, is from an adverse decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board which upheld the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner’s order terminating the claimant’s temporary total disability benefits as of August 30, 1976. Several questions are raised concerning the administrative procedures of the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner in the termination of temporary total disability awards.

*109Specifically, the following points are considered: (1) the Commissioner’s authority to permit an employer to protest continuation of temporary total…