Turner v. City and County of Denver

Opinion by

Judge CRISWELL.

This petition by the claimant, Mabel Turner, to review a final order of the Industrial Claim Appeals Office (Panel) requires us to determine whether the so-called reemployment section of the Workers’ Compensation Act, Colo.Sess.Laws 1990, ch. 62, § 8-42-110(3), at 494, as it existed prior to its repeal in 1991 (Colo.Sess.Laws 1991, ch. 219 at 1312-13), authorized an award to an injured employee based upon that employee’s permanent medical impairment, even though such an award would exceed one that was based upon the employee’s industrial disability. The Panel…