Opinion ID: 2777888
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Text: ¶1 While driving a truck within the scope of his employment with Provo City, Duane Serrano was injured in a car accident. He later applied for and received permanent total disability benefits. Provo City and the Workers Compensation Fund (collectively, WCF) appealed from the Utah Labor Commission’s order awarding benefits, arguing that (1) Mr. Serrano failed to prove the elements of a permanent total disability claim; (2) the administrative law judge abused her discretion because she initially denied Mr. Serrano’s claim, but then awarded benefits after the labor commission instructed her to reconsider the evidence; and (3) any award of benefits should not commence on the date that he was deemed to be permanently and totally disabled because of the extraordinary delay in resolving Mr. Serrano’s claim. We conclude that none of these 1 Justice Nehring sat on this case and voted prior to his retirement on January 31, 2015. PROVO CITY v. UTAH LABOR COMMISSION Opinion of the Court arguments merit reversal, and we affirm the labor commission’s award of benefits.