Poor Richard Inn v. Lister

HORSEY, Justice:

This workmen’s compensation appeal concerns the Industrial Accident Board’s authority under 19 Del.C. § 2347 to increase *179an injured employee’s disability benefits on finding claimant’s impairment to have increased over that previously fixed by agreement.

The question presented is whether the Board may make a new finding as to present degree of impairment, as the Board did, or whether it must base any increase in disability benefits on the percentage change from the previously agreed-upon impairment, as employer contends.

Employer appeals Superior Court’s af-firmance of the…