ST. PAUL TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC. v. Kuehl

Opinion

McLACHLAN, J.

This appeal requires us to consider the narrow question of whether a respondent in a workers’ compensation action, prior to the completion of proceedings before the workers’ compensation com missioner (commissioner), may bring a declaratory judgment action in the Superior Court, challengmg the constitutionality of the statute on which a claimant relies to confer jurisdiction on the commissioner. The intervening defendants, Rosalind J. Koskoff and Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder, P.C., appeal 1 from the trial court’s summary judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff, The St.…