GONZALES v. INDUS. COM'N OF STATE OF COLO.

No. 83CA1041.

689 P.2d 675 (1984)

Jake GONZALES, Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF the STATE OF COLORADO, Director, Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Labor, State of Colorado and Barnett Construction Company and Royal Insurance Company, Respondents.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Rehearing Denied May 17, 1984.

Certiorari Granted October 15, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernon Playton, Denver, for petitioner.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Robert Lehnert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondents Indus. Com'n and Director, Department of Labor and Employment, Div. of Labor.

Weller, Friedrich, Hickisch, Hazlitt & Ward, J. Mark Smith, Edward J. Godin, Denver, for respondents Barnett Const. Co. and Royal Ins. Co.


STERNBERG, Judge.

In this workmen's compensation case, the claimant, Jake Gonzales, seeks review of an order of the Industrial Commission. A referee had entered an order in 1982 which it characterized as interlocutory in nature. The Industrial Commission held that an amendment to the Workmen's Compensation Act effective in 1983 was to be applied retroactively. The effect of that amendment on the referee's order was to make it final and, thus, subject to being reviewed...

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