Opinion ID: 1420198
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Robert Duddy

Text: At an administrative hearing on February 12, 1997, the ALJ found that Duddy was PTD as a result of two on-the-job injuries suffered while working for ADT Security Systems, Inc. Duddy reached maximum medical improvement from the second of these two injuries on December 16, 1993 and has been receiving PTD benefits since then. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the compensation carrier at the time of the second injury, pays for eighty percent of the disability benefits; SIF pays for the remaining twenty percent. CCIA and SIF admitted to this apportionment of liability, and Duddy did not challenge it. As a result of his on-the-job injuries, Duddy began receiving social security disability benefits in November of 1992. At the time of the administrative hearing and his appeal to ICAO, Duddy had not begun to receive retirement benefits. Nevertheless, he asserted a constitutional challenge to section 8-42-103(1)(c)(II), anticipating that he would face invocation of the retirement benefits offset in the future. For want of jurisdiction by an administrative agency to declare a statute unconstitutional, the ALJ denied Duddy's equal protection challenge to the statute. The ICAO affirmed the ALJ decision. Duddy petitioned the court of appeals solely on the issue of the statute's alleged unconstitutionality. While Duddy's appeal was pending, the court of appeals issued its decisions in Culver and Stolworthy. We exercised our transfer authority under C.A.R. 50, granting Duddy's petition for writ of certiorari prior to judgment in the court of appeals. D.