Young v. Industrial Commission

HAIRE, Judge.

The sole issue presented on this review by certiorari of an Industrial Commission award is whether the hearing officer erred in refusing to grant petitioner’s oral motion to amend his previously filed petition to reopen so as to allege “a claim for new injury, treating this petition for reopening as a new injury claim.”

On July 1, 1968, petitioner sustained an industrial injury consisting of a back strain. His employer at that time was Del E. Webb Development Corporation, and the workmen’s compensation insurance carrier was the State Compensation Fund. The petitioner’s claim for…