Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services v. LeVan

We shall here hold that the Court of Special Appeals erred when it concluded that a circuit court’s remand to the Sundry Claims Board (the Board) of an appeal from that Board was not an appealable final order. We shall further hold that the circuit court judge erred in determining that awards by the Board were to be governed by the Workmen’s Compensation statute.

I Statutory background

The Board is created by Code (1957,1978 Repl. Vol.) Art. 41, § 188A (the Act). (The last amendment was in 1976, prior to the incident here in question.) Its purpose is to administer benefits whenever a prisoner…