Meza v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office

Opinion by

JUDGE RICHMAN

T1 In this workers' compensation action, claimant, Ricardo Meza, seeks review of a final order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) affirming an administrative law judge's order awarding claimant permanent partial disability (PPD) benefits based on an impairment rating of ten percent of the lower right extremity given claimant after a division-sponsored independent medical examination (DIME).

T2 Claimant argues that the ALJ: (1) lacked jurisdiction because employer did not appeal from an earlier eighteen-month DIME; (2) failed to give appropriate presumptive…