Kuvaja v. Bethel Savings Bank

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Bethel Savings Bank and its insurer (hereinafter “the Employer”) appeal the order of the Appellate Division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission dismissing, for failure to file a brief within the required time, their appeal from a single commissioner’s award of benefits to the Bank’s employee, Mrs. Audrey Kuvaja. We review actions of the Appellate Division only for errors of law, and we hold that in the circumstances of this case the Appellate Division acted within the scope of its allowable discretion. Accordingly, we affirm.

On March 29, 1983, Mrs. Kuvaja filed a…