Fitzsimmons v. Island City Steel

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board finding that an earlier stipulation barred his claim for a ganglion cyst. Before the Board, claimant argued that the issue was whether his “ganglion cyst claim [was] barred by the issue of claim preclusion or issue preclusion.” He told the Board that his claim was not barred because it was not “raised or raisable” when the administrative law judge accepted the stipulation.1 The Board ruled against claimant.

In the brief that claimant filed in this court, he makes the same arguments that he pursued before the Board. At oral…