Brakus v. Department of Labor & Industries

Quaere: Where the department of labor and industries has closed a workman’s claim arising from an industrial injury with an allowance of a certain percentage for permanent partial disability and the workman alone appeals from the closing order to the board of industrial insurance appeals on the sole ground that he is entitled to a greater percentage for permanent partial disability than the department has allowed, can the board, after finding that the workman has not established that any of his permanent partial disability is the result of his industrial injury, reverse the order closing the…