Supreme Court: WC Commission May Decide Constitutional Questions

The Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Commission has authority to determine whether any provision of the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act is being unconstitutionally applied, a unanimous state Supreme Court decided Tuesday. The court reversed rulings by an administrative law judge and Court of Civil Appeals, and ruled in favor of claimant Cynthia Robinson, ruling that she had a right to petition the Workers' Compensation Commission to decide on the constitutionality of the statute that allowed her employer to deny benefits after she slipped on icy sidewalk and fell while five...