Murphy v. Dulaney Investments

TODD, Justice.

Employee, a truckdriver employed by a New Jersey firm, sustained a work-related injury in Minnesota in October 1980. He seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals denying his petition for reargument of that tribunal’s order denying his petition to vacate a compensation judge’s decision dismissing his claim petition for lack of jurisdiction. Although Minn.Stat. § 176.041, subd. 4 (1982) extends the coverage of this state’s Workers’ Compensation Act to an employee if he “chooses to forego any workers’ compensation claim resulting from the injury that he…