Pederson v. North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau

SANDSTROM, Justice.

The North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau appeals from a district court judgment reversing the bureau’s denial of benefits to Kathleen Pederson. The bureau argues the appeal was not perfected because Pederson did not timely serve a notice of appeal on her employer. We hold the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction over the appeal, reverse its judgment, and order the appeal from the bureau’s order dismissed.

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Kathleen Pederson applied for worker’s compensation benefits on August 23, 1991. Pederson claimed to have suffered a work-related injury in the course of…