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Rodriguez v. Evers
2020-UPTHIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.
THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals
Veronica Rodriguez, Employee, Respondent,
v.
Peggy Evers, Employer, and NorGuard Insurance Company, Carrier, Appellants.
Appellate Case No. 2018-001111
Appeal From The Workers' Compensation Commission
Unpublished Opinion No. 2020-UP-133 Submitted March 1, 2020 – Filed May 6, 2020 Withdrawn, Substituted, and Refiled June 6, 2020
APPEAL DISMISSED
George D. Gallagher, of Speed, Seta, Martin, Trivett & Stubley, LLC, and Kevin Desmond Maroney, of Rogers Lewis Jackson Mann & Quinn, LLC, both of Columbia, for Appellants.
Don C. Gibson, of Gibson Law Firm, LLC, of N. Charleston, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Peggy Evers and NorGuard Insurance Company (Appellants) appeal the Worker's Compensation Commission's (the Commission's) dismissal of
their appeal from the single commissioner and the denial of their motion to reinstate. Appellants appealed a single commissioner's order finding that the claimant was a statutory employee and awarding various temporary benefits. The Commission administratively dismissed the appeal after Appellants did not file their appellate brief. Appellants petitioned to reinstate, which the Commission denied. This appeal followed.
The Commission has not reached a final decision on the merits of the claimant's contested case. Thus, the underlying orders are not immediately appealable to this court. Therefore, this appeal is dismissed. See S.C. Code Ann. § 1-23-380 (Supp. 2019) ("A party who has exhausted all administrative remedies available within the agency and who is aggrieved by a final decision in a contested case is entitled to judicial review . . . ."); Bone v. U.S. Food Service, 404 S.C. 67, 74-75, 744 S.E.2d 552, 556-57 (2013) (defining a final judgment as an order which disposes of the entire case and explaining issues like compensability may be raised on appeal of the final award).
APPEAL DISMISSED.1
LOCKEMY, C.J., and GEATHERS and HEWITT, JJ., concur.
1 We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.