WIGGINTON, Judge.
The sole issue in this appeal is whether the deputy commissioner erred in dismissing the Chittick claim as a sanction for her attorney's failure to appear at a dismissal hearing when the attorney was not afforded proper notice. We agree with claimant's contentions and reverse the deputy commissioner's order of dismissal.
This is claimant's second appeal that has grown out of her injury incurred in December, 1978. She filed her initial claim...
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