Claim of Mejia v. Drake Group, LLC

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 25, 2013, which, among other things, denied a request by the employer to rehear or reopen claimant’s workers’ compensation claim.

Claimant filed for workers’ compensation benefits alleging that he suffered a work-related injury to his back in April 2011 *1362when he fell down the stairs at the employer’s building. The employer controverted liability, asserting that claimant was not an employee and that no work-related accident had occurred.1 During the course of the proceedings, the employer discovered that, following the…