Fisher v. Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission

JOHNSTONE, Judge.

The question is whether an attorney’s signature on a petition for review is sufficient compliance with the “verified complaint” requirement of KRS 341.450 to confer jurisdiction on the circuit court. Because we find this ease indistinguishable from the situation addressed in Monyhan v. Kentucky Unemployment Insurance Commission, Ky.App., 709 S.W.2d 837 (1986), we are constrained to concur in the decision of the circuit judge that it is not.

The facts of this case are simple and undisputed. Janet L. Fisher sought review in the Boyd Circuit Court of a decision by the Kentucky…