Grover v. Industrial Com'n of Colorado

QUINN, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals’ decision in Grover v. Industrial Comm’n, 739 P.2d 900 (Colo.App.1987), which held that the Industrial Commission (commission), which was replaced in 1986 by the Industrial Claim Appeals Office,1 lacked the authority to order, as part of a final award of permanent partial disability in a worker’s compensation proceeding, the payment of medical expenses for any medical treatment which the claimant might need subsequent to the date of the final award, and also that the commission had no authority to order an employer to…