Picich v. Department of Labor & Industries

The Department of Labor and Industries and Rayonier, Inc., appeal from a judgment increasing an award for permanent partial disability. After the last closing of the claim, the department reopened it and, on November 13, 1957, made an additional permanent partial disability award, from which order the respondent appealed to the superior court. By reopening the claim and making the increased award, the department itself decided that respondent’s condition had changed in the interval. The only issue upon the appeal to the superior court was the extent of the disability resulting from the…