Loveless v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Berry, Judge:

This is an appeal by Walter D. Loveless from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board of May 27, 1971, which affirmed an order of the State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner of November 6, 1970, which held that the employee’s petition to reopen his claim was barred under the provision of Chapter 23, Article 4, Section 16 of the West Virginia Code, as amended, because more than one year had elapsed since the last payment on a permanent partial disability award.

The claimant, while an employee of Boggess, Inc., House Movers, sustained multiple electric bums and injuries…