Pruitt v. Providence Extended Care

OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

An employee filed an affidavit of readiness for hearing in her workers compensation case approximately four years after her employer filed a controversion of her written workers' compensation claim. The employer petitioned to dismiss her claim based on the statutory deadline for a hearing request in AS 23.30.110(c). After a hearing, the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board dismissed her claim, and the Alaska Workers' Compensation Appeals Commission affirmed the Board's decision. Because the employee did not file a timely request for a hearing and was…