Simmons v. Lane Mass Transit District

Claimant seeks review of an order in which the Workers’ Compensation Board1 refused to set aside a “Stipulation and Order” by which he and SAIF had resolved his request for a hearing on SAIF’s denial of his claim that his current condition is a new injury. Under the stipulation, SAIF agreed to continue treating his current condition as an aggravation of a previous accepted injury. Claimant argues that the stipulation is invalid both because the law requires the parties to resolve a denied claim by a Disputed Claims Settlement (DCS) rather than a simple stipulation and because there was no…