Perez v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

EUBANK, Judge.

This is a special action review of a dismissal of a hearing request protesting a notice of claim status awarding permanent disability benefits. We decide one issue: when an intermediate award for permanent scheduled disability becomes final and the law for rating scheduled permanent disability is thereafter changed, is the claimant precluded from protesting the notice of permanent disability to prove increased disability under this new standard? Because the administrative law judge correctly applied finality principles, we affirm the dismissal of the hearing request.

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