Porter v. Bayliner Marine Corp.

BELL, Chief Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case to address an issue not heretofore considered by Maryland courts, whether, when an award by the Workers’ Compensation Commission (“Commission”) requiring periodic payments is satisfied by a single lump sum payment, without Commission approval, Maryland Code (1957,1991 RepLVol.) § 9-736 of the Labor and Employment Article 1 bars the reopening of the claim giving rise to the award more than five years after the lump sum payment is made, and, thus, any modification of that award. The Commission determined that it did, and, on judicial review,…