Schuck & Sons Construction v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

PELANDER, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 In this workers’ compensation case, the employee/claimant Gary Sinclair and the employer/carrier Schuck & Sons Construction executed and filed with the Industrial Commission a compromise and settlement agreement - for a lump sum compensation payment, which the Commission later approved despite Sinclair’s intervening death and Schuck’s attempted withdrawal from the settlement on that basis. In this statutory special action, Schuck challenges the administrative law judge’s (ALJ) award approving the agreement. We affirm the award.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 The underlying…