In re Riggins

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed February 11, 2013, which denied claimant’s application to reopen a prior decision.

*1496In August 2011, the Department of Labor issued an initial determination which found, among other things, that claimant was ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct following a positive result of a drug test. After claimant failed to attend a September 2011 hearing on the matter, the Administrative Law Judge (hereinafter ALJ) rendered a default decision against him, but…