Felter v. Floorserv, Inc.

*427 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

KITCHENS, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. After an administrative judge (AJ) rules on a claimant’s petition to controvert a workers’ compensation claim, the claimant has twenty days to file a notice of appeal with the full Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission (Commission). In this ease, the Court must determine whether an AJ’s order, handed down more than twenty days after the AJ’s ruling and granting a claimant thirty additional days in which to prosecute her claim, should be given legal effect by the Commission so that the claimant’s notice of appeal, filed within…