A.J. Goulder Electric v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

FIDEL, Judge.

In the course of consolidated Industrial Commission hearings on a new injury claim and petition to reopen a closed earlier claim, Claimant and the new injury carrier reached a settlement, which the reopening carrier declined to join. At the request of the settling parties, but over the objection of the reopening carrier, the administrative law judge (“ALJ”) approved the settlement and dismissed both the Claimant’s protest of termination of the new injury claim and his protest of denial of reopening of the prior injury claim. Although denial of reopening would thereby…