Court Dismisses Employer's Challenge to Board's Finding on Compensability

The Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii dismissed an employer’s challenge to an administrative determination that a worker had suffered a compensable injury, since the administrative decision was not final. Case: Pickett v. State of Hawaii, No. CAAP-18-0000016, 09/05/2018, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Rebecca Pickett worked for the State of Hawaii Department of Education, a self-insured employer. She filed a workers’ compensation claim asserting that she had suffered an on-the-job injury in 2014. The director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relat...