Fireboard Paper Products Corporation v. Industrial Accident Commission

Applicant Morales suffered four injuries to his back in the course of his employment with petitioner. A referee awarded compensation. A panel of the commission, however, reformulated the factors of permanent disability and obtained a disability rating from its permanent disability rating bureau, which it served on the parties. It then revised the referee's apportionment of disability among the four injuries. The panel granted petitioner’s request for a hearing to cross-examine the rating expert and present evidence rebut*846ting his recommendation and assigned the matter to a referee. The…