Gleneagles, Inc. v. Hanks

In this appeal we are presented with the question of whether, in a workers’ compensation case, an employer and insurer can resort to injunctive relief, under the circuit court’s plenary equity power, to circumvent the “no stay” provision of Maryland Code Annotated (1999 RepLVol.), Labor and Employment Article § 9-741, and thereby delay payment of an award of compensation pending judicial review.

The genesis of this case is a claim filed by appellee, Linda M. Hanks, with the Workers’ Compensation Commission (“the Commission”), seeking benefits for an occupational disease contracted in 1990…