Claim of La Manque v. Utica Concrete Products, Inc.

Appeals from a decision and an amended decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 2, 1989 and August 20, 1990, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant had a permanent total disability.

We reject the contention that the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier was improperly denied its right to cross-examine adverse witnesses and produce its own witnesses. As to the request for an adjournment to have the consultant for the carrier testify, no excuse was offered for the *738failure to have the consultant present at the hearing. Therefore, the denial of that request was…