Rowland v. City of Tulsa

¶ 1 The court vacates today the trial tribunal’s order refusing to consider — for perceived want of jurisdiction over the § 84 approval order1 — the claimant’s post-settlement application for a fee-quantum inquiry. It remands the claimant’s request with directions to grant a hearing. While I do not recede from the court’s ultimate disposition of the cause by today’s remand, I write in dissent to afford the Workers’ Compensation Court and its bar some insights into the underlying problem at hand and to suggest several solutions that would better secure the stability and finality of…