Legal Opinion
Lucero v. Yellow Freight System, Inc.
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided July 9, 1991No. 12388PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARTZ, Judge.
This workers’ compensation case presents the question of when we should interrupt our customary processing of an appeal in order to remand the matter to a lower tribunal for correction of an error acknowledged by a judge of that tribunal.
Yellow Freight System, Inc. (employer) has appealed an award by the Workers’ Compensation Administration (WCA) to Phillip M. Lucero (Lucero) of $6,879.12 for past medical expenses related to his back. Employer has also moved to remand this matter to the WCA for reconsideration of the award because the Workers’ Compensation Judge has…
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