Nelson v. General Motors Corp.

In this appeal we are presented with a question regarding the procedure for appeals from a hearing referee to the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (appeal board). Where the hearing referee enters a judgment in favor of a plaintiff for two closed periods of disability but denies the plaintiff’s claim for continuing benefits for an alleged psychological disability, and where defendant employer thereafter files a claim for review challenging the award, and where plaintiff does not file a claim for review or otherwise cross-appeal the denial of her claim for continuing benefits but, in her…