Christiana Care Health Services v. Davis

STRINE, Chief Justice:

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal addresses the Superior Court’s decision to overrule a determination by the Industrial Accident Board (the “IAB”) that the parties before it had reached a settlement agreement, which barred a later claim for benefits due to permanent impairment. Because it lacked a complete release that would have avoided any question about its effect, the settlement agreement was less than ideally clear. But the IAB’s factual determination that the parties’ settlement, which involved an express agreement that the injury in question was resolved as an ongoing…