22 Conn. App. 515 | Conn. App. Ct. | 1990
This appeal was previously dismissed by this court for lack of a final judgment. Guinan v. Directing Marketing Assn., Inc., 21 Conn. App. 63, 571 A.2d 143, cert. granted, 215 Conn. 812, 576 A.2d 541 (1990). Upon the granting, by the Supreme Court, of the defendants’ unopposed petition for certification, the case was remanded to this court for reconsideration in light of Szudora v. Fairfield, 214 Conn. 552, 573 A.2d 1 (1990), a Supreme Court case that was published after our decision.
Both Szudora and Guinan involve appeals from the workers’ compensation review division and the finality of a decision of it. The test for determining whether a decision of the review division is a final judgment “turns on the scope of the proceedings on remand: if such further proceedings are merely ministerial, the decision is an appealable final judgment, but if further proceedings will require the exercise of independent judgment or discretion and the taking of additional evidence, the appeal is premature and must be dismissed.” Szudora v. Fairfield, supra, 556.
We concluded in Guinan that the amount of compensation due the claimant for her partial disability was
A decision of the compensation review division is a final judgment if the claimant involved is entitled to temporary total disability benefits and the salary and period of time during which there was an inability to work are known.
The appeal should not have been dismissed, and is, therefore, reinstated.