Anderson v. Board of Education

MEREDITH, Judge.

In this opinion, we address a question raised in two separate appeals about the statutory construction of a section of the Maryland Workers’ Compensation Act, namely, Maryland Code, Labor & Employment Article (“LE”), § 9-629, a statute that was first enacted in 1987 to create an intermediate level of compensation for work-related injuries. We are persuaded that, in each case, the Workers’ Compensation Commission (“the Commission”) correctly applied LE § 9-629 in ordering that compensation be paid at the intermediate rate because the total compensation it awarded in each case…