Employers Mutual Liability Insurance v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

ROUSE, J.

In this writ of review proceeding, we are called upon to determine procedures to be employed in making supplemental awards of attorney’s fees for legal services performed in appellate proceedings in workers’ compensation cases.

The matter arose when, following our summary denial of an employer’s petition for a writ of review, the prevailing employee sought hearing in our Supreme Court on his request for an award of attorney’s fees. In its answer to the petition, the Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board (hereinafter “board”) suggested that some guidance with respect to the…