W.C. No. 4-282-210.Industrial Claim Appeals Office.
October 5, 2005.
ORDER
The claimant seeks review of an order of Administrative Law Judge Mattoon (ALJ) dated May 17, 2005. We dismiss the appeal for lack of a final order.
Under § 8-43-301(2), C.R.S. 2005, a party dissatisfied with an order “which requires any party to pay a penalty or benefits or denies a claimant a benefit or penalty,” may file a petition to review. Orders which do not require the payment of benefits or penalties, or deny the claimant benefits or penalties are interlocutory and not subject to review. Natkin Co. v. Eubanks, 775 P.2d 88 (Colo.App. 1989).
The order on review granted the respondents’ request to designate Sedgwick CMS as the payer in this workers’ compensation claim and ordered the claimant’s counsel to “forward all medical bills to Sedgwick CM rather than respondent’s counsel.” However, the order does not require Sedgwick to pay any specific medical bill. Neither does the order award or deny any benefit or penalty. Under these circumstances, we agree with the respondent that the order is interlocutory and not currently reviewable.
IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the claimant’s petition to review the ALJ’s order dated May 17, 2005, is dismissed without prejudice.
INDUSTRIAL CLAIM APPEALS PANEL
____________________ Kathy E. Dean
____________________ Tom Schrant
Joseph Duran, Michigan, Pueblo, CO, Rocky Mountain Steel Mills, c/o Carolyn Bjur, Oregon Steel Mills, S. West Broadway, Portland, OR, Emily S. Finn, Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Inc., Greenwood Village, CO, Steven U. Mullens, Esq., Court St., Pueblo, CO, (For Claimant).
Katherine Markheim Lee, Esq. and Amy Van Vurst, Esq., Broadway, Denver, CO, (For Respondents).