Ryerson v. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

This case raises the novel question whether the Superior Court may enforce a Workers' Compensation Commission order awarding medical expenses to an employee during the period an appeal from that order is pending before the Appellate Division or the Law Court. We conclude that section 104-A of the Workers’ Compensation Act1 compels an affirmative answer.

On March 25, 1983, employee Linda M. Ryerson filed with the Workers’ Compensation Commission a petition for award of compensation. The hearing commissioner on February 3, 1984, granted her petition, based on a finding…