Perez v. United States Steel Corp.

I dissent.

I am unable to agree with the majority’s conclusion that the Industrial Board’s purported findings of fact are sufficient to enable this Court to conduct an intelligent review of the Board’s denial of Benedicto Perez’s claim for total permanent disability benefits. Under the guise of Appellate Rule 15(E), the majority concludes that the Board’s “Summary of Evidence” (which the majority determined ipse dixit to be the Board’s findings of fact) presents merely a “defect in form.” The purported “defect in form” is in fact a substantive defect which effectively deprives Perez of his…