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INDUSTRIAL CLAIM APPEALS OFFICE v. ORTH

No. 97SC671.

965 P.2d 1246 (1998)

INDUSTRIAL CLAIM APPEALS OFFICE, Southland Corporation, and Kemper National Insurance Companies, Petitioners, v. Lyndall K. ORTH, f/k/a Lyndall Moon, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado.

Rehearing Denied October 19, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale A. Norton, Attorney General, Martha Phillips Allbright, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Richard A. Westfall, Solicitor General, Paul Farley, Deputy Attorney General, David M. Kaye, First Assistant Attorney General, John D. Baird, Assistant Attorney General, State Services Section, Denver, for Petitioner Industrial Claim Appeals Office.

White & Steele, P.C., Robert H. Coate, Janice M. Greening, Ali J. Farhang, Denver, for Petitioners Southland Corp. and Kemper National Insurance Co.

Steven U. Mullens, P.C., Steven U. Mullens, Colorado Springs, Wilcox & Ogden, P.C., Ralph Ogden, Denver, for Respondent.

Justice MARTINEZ delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This workers' compensation action concerns the scope of authority granted to a Prehearing Administrative Law Judge ("PALJ") by the Workers' Compensation Act. See §§ 8-40-201 to 8-47-203, 3 C.R.S. (1997). We granted certiorari to determine whether a PALJ may approve a settlement agreement that purports to close a workers' compensation case pursuant to section 8-43-204, 3 C.R.S. (1997), and whether...

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