Artis v. Morrison-Knudsen Co.

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Industrial Commission which terminated unemployment compensation benefits to claimant Artis and disqualified Artis from. receipt of any unemployment benefits for an additional period of 52 weeks on the basis that he had wilfully misrepresented a material fact on a weekly certification form. We reverse.

Artis had been employed as an accountant with Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc., for five years and was laid off work on July 27, 1983 because of company economic problems. He applied for and received unemployment benefits. On August 31, 1983,…