Best v. Industrial Commission

HAIRE, Judge.

On this review of an Industrial Commission award we are required to determine whether the Industrial Commission correctly held that it lacked jurisdiction to hold a hearing because of the employee’s alleged failure to timely seek review of the carrier’s denial of a petition to reopen. Omitting facts not pertinent to the question raised, the Industrial Commission’s claims file shows that the petitioning employee had suffered a compensable injury in 1962 which culminated in an award finding no permanent disability. Thereafter on May 14, 1969 the employee filed a petition to reopen…