What is the appropriate time allowance for a variance denial expedited hearing? Will it be standardized so that it is the same for every variance hearing statewide?
Expedited Hearings for variance denials will be 60 minutes in every hearing part statewide. • Will the variance denial expedited hearings be limited to the sole issue of the variance denial? Or will the designated variance WCLJ address other outstanding issues, which may well be pending before another WCLJ? In order to conserve Board resources, at most variance hearings the WCLJ will not address all outstanding issues in the claim. • There are at least two outlying hearing points which are not Customer Service Centers (New City and Allegany) which do not have video capability. How will variance hearings be conducted and scheduled in those locations? Will the variance judge for the district travel to these sites instead of the WCLJ regularly assigned or will these locations be considered exceptions and the variance hearings heard by the judge regularly assigned to these locations and at regular intervals? Variance hearings in places where the Board has no video capability will be conduc
