Industrial Claims Appeals Office v. Flower Stop Marketing Corp.

The Industrial Claims Appeals Office (panel) determined that claimant William Kilgore had been improperly denied unemployment compensation benefits because the decision of the referee was based solely on hearsay evidence contrary to Sims v. Industrial Commission, 627 P.2d 1107 (Colo.1981). The claimant’s employer, Flower Stop Marketing Corporation (Flower Stop), appealed and the court of appeals in Flower Stop Marketing Corporation v. Kilgore, 762 P.2d 747 (Colo.Ct.App.1988), held that Sims was no longer applicable to unemployment compensation cases. The court set aside the panel’s order and…