Marquez v. Industrial Commission

HAIRE, Chief Judge,

Division 1.

In this review by certiorari of an Industrial Commission award granting temporary disability benefits only, we are asked to consider whether the Commission and hearing officer improperly ignored letters from a physician in Denver, Colorado, relative to surgery performed on petitioner after an industrial accident.

On March 27, 1969, the petitioner, Ruben Marquez, injured his back while lugging beef during the course of his employment with Swift & Company. Petitioner did not continue working and went to Dr. Franc B rodar, the company physician who referred him to…