Laughlin v. Convenient Management Services, Inc.

OPINION

WECHSLER, Judge.

Employer Convenience Management Services, Inc. appeals from a compensation order entered pursuant to the Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act), NMSA 1978, Sections 52-1-1 to -70 (1929, as amended through 2007). Worker filed a cross-appeal, which we address in a separate memorandum opinion. In the compensation order, the Workers Compensation Judge (the WCJ) determined that Worker Larry Laughlin was not at maximum medical improvement despite previously finding that Worker had reached maximum medical improvement five months earlier in an order granting Worker a partial lump…