Turbitt v. Blue Hen Lines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the Board's award of 15 percent permanent partial disability was not supported by substantial evidence
• finding that an administrative agency’s reliance upon information outside the record was error because it required notice to the parties and an opportunity to be heard
• “the [Industrial Accident] Board, when presented with uncontroverted expert medical opinion, may not use its administrative expertise as a basis for rejecting competent medical evidence.”
• “Rejection of evidence on the basis of credibility must be supported by specific references to evidence of record that prompts disbelief.”
• “[W]here the Board [is] presented with different . . . testimony, [it is] free to reject, in full or in part, the testimony of one [witness] based on its experience of gauging the testimony of witnesses who give conflicting testimony.”
• \Administrative agencies operate less formally than courts of law.\

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