Pugh v. Workers' Compensation Commissioner

McHUGH, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Dallas Pugh, the claimant, from a May 3, 1991 decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) affirming a July 11, 1990 final order of the Workers’ Compensation Commission (Commissioner) rejecting the claimant’s May 22,1990 application to reopen his claim for consideration of permanent partial disability (PPD) payments over and above PPD payments previously awarded for the same injury. The reopening application was rejected as untimely filed because it was filed over five years from the date the claimant had last received PPD payments in…