NCR Corp. v. INDUSTRIAL COM'N OF ARIZONA

OPINION

FROEB, Judge.

This is a special action review of an Industrial Commission award vacating a termination notice because the notice is void. Several issues are presented, but the dispositive one is whether, despite uncontradicted medical evidence of permanent impairment, a carrier may terminate benefits without permanent impairment solely because a claimant fails to respond to a “twenty-day” letter. We agree with the administrative law judge that it may not, and therefore we affirm the award.

The facts relevant to this review follow. In August 1980, respondent employee (claimant) fractured…