Dudley v. Huizenga

KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] In this workers’ compensation proceeding, the claimant’s attorney missed a stipulated deadline for disclosing expert witnesses. He provided the disclosure eight weeks late. The Department of Labor granted the employer’s motion to strike the claimant’s experts, and, since *646the claimant had no case without expert evidence, the Department also granted summary judgment for the employer. Because our workers’ compensation laws and administrative rules are remedial in nature and should be liberally construed to achieve their purposes, we conclude that it was an abuse of…