Connecticut General Statutes

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-280b (2026)

Compensation Review Board

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(a) There shall be a Compensation Review Board within the Workers' Compensation Commission. The chairperson of the Workers' Compensation Commission shall serve as chief of the Compensation Review Board and shall have responsibility for the operation of the board. On or before January 1, 1992, the chairperson shall appoint a chief clerk of the Compensation Review Board under the provisions of chapter 67 who shall be responsible to the chairperson for the efficient operation of the board.

(b) The board shall review appeals of decisions made by administrative law judges pursuant to this chapter. The chief shall annually select two administrative law judges to sit with him to hear such appeals for a term of one year, except that no administrative law judge may sit in review of an award or decision rendered by him. The chief may select a third administrative law judge to sit on the board if one of the board members is disqualified or temporarily incapacitated from hearing the matter under review.

(c) No administrative law judge except the chief may serve as a member of the Compensation Review Board for more than one year during the term for which he was appointed.

(P.A. 91-339, S. 7, 55; P.A. 21-18, S. 1; P.A. 22-89, S. 11.)

History: Pursuant to P.A. 21-18, “commissioner” and “compensation commissioner” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “administrative law judge” and “compensation commissioners” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “administrative law judges” in Subsecs. (b) and (c), effective October 1, 2021; P.A. 22-89 made technical changes in Subsec. (a), effective May 24, 2022.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 11 cases, 1994–2016 · leading case: Lafayette v. Gen. Dynamics Corp., 770 A.2d 1 (Conn. 2001).
Lafayette v. Gen. Dynamics Corp., 770 A.2d 1 (Conn. 2001). · cites it 5× “Pursuant to General Statutes §§ 31-280b (b) 5 and *770 31-301 (b), 6 the plaintiff filed a petition for review with the review board, which affirmed the decision of the commissioner.”
Civardi v. City of Norwich, 649 A.2d 523 (Conn. 1994). · cites it 5× “Following an appeal pursuant to General Statutes §§ 31-280b (b) 5 and 31-301 (b), 6 the compensation review board concluded that the transfer of § 31-284b benefits pursuant to § 31-349 may occur only after 104 weeks of total disability, and that Civardi was not totally disabled.”
Fantasia v. Milford Fastening Sys., 860 A.2d 779 (Conn. App. Ct. 2004). · cites it 2× “” General Statutes § 31-301 (c) provides in relevant part that on hearing the appeal, the board “shall issue its decision, affirming, modifying or reversing the decision of the commissioner.”
Cantoni v. Xerox Corp., 740 A.2d 796 (Conn. 1999). · cites it 3× “” See footnote 4 of this opinion; see also General Statutes § 31-280b (b) (granting review board power to “review appeals of decisions made by compensation commissioners pursuant to this chapter”).”
Six v. Thomas O'Connor & Co., 669 A.2d 1214 (Conn. 1996). ““(b) The appeal shall be heard by the Compensation Review Board as provided in section 31-280b. The Compensation Review Board shall hear the appeal on the record of the hearing before the commissioner, provided, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Board that additional…”
Spatafore v. Yale Univ., 684 A.2d 1155 (Conn. 1996). ““(b) The appeal shall be heard by the Compensation Review Board as provided in section 31-280b. The Compensation Review Board shall hear *413 the appeal on the record of the hearing before the commissioner, provided, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the board that…”
Conetta v. City of Stamford, 715 A.2d 756 (Conn. 1998). ““(b) The appeal shall be heard by the Compensation Review Board as provided in section 31-280b. The Compensation Review Board shall hear the appeal on the record of the hearing before the commissioner, provided, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the board that additional…”
Pearce v. City of New Haven, 819 A.2d 878 (Conn. App. Ct. 2003). ““(b) The appeal shall be heard by the [board] as provided in section 31-280b. The [board] shall hear the appeal on the record of the hearing before the commissioner, provided, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the board that additional evidence or testimony is material and…”
Anderton v. WasteAway Servs., LLC, 880 A.2d 1003 (Conn. App. Ct. 2005). · cites it 2× “See General Statutes § 31-280b. “The commissioner is the sole trier of fact and [t]he conclusions drawn by [the commissioner] from the facts found must stand unless they result from an incorrect application of the law to the subordinate facts or from an inference illegally or…”
Reising v. Gen. Dynamics Corp./Elec. Boat Div., 661 A.2d 1042 (Conn. App. Ct. 1995). · cites it 2× “General Statutes § 31-280b. We are asked to review a denial of a motion for articulation by the board.”
Lazzari v. Stop & Shop Supermarket Co., LLC (Conn. App. Ct. 2016). “’’ 5 General Statutes § 31-301 (b) provides: ‘‘The appeal shall be heard by the Compensation Review Board as provided in section 31-280b. The Com- pensation Review Board shall hear the appeal on the record of the hearing before the commissioner, provided, if it is shown to the…”
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