Farner v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Rita Farner (Claimant) petitions for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which declined to set aside a Compromise and Release Agreement (C & R Agreement). The sole issue on appeal is whether Claimant’s mistake provides a sufficient basis to set aside the C & R Agreement. Concluding it does not, we affirm.

In August 1988, Claimant suffered a work-related fractured left arm for which Rockwell International Corp. (Employer) issued a Notice of Compensation Payable. WCJ’s Op. of 2/22/99, Finding of Fact (F.F.) No. 1.

Approximately eleven years…