Noonkester v. Montana State Fund

¶1 The Workers’ Compensation Court determined that Tucker Noonkester (“Tucker”) could repudiate the workers’ compensation claim filed on his behalf by his father. Tucker then repudiated the claim, and the court accordingly dismissed the petitions filed by him and the Montana State Compensation Insurance Fund (“State Fund”) on the ground that no justiciable controversy remained. C&S Construction, Inc. (“C&S”), appeals from this judgment, raising two issues, which we restate as follows:

¶2 1. Did the Workers’ Compensation Court err by ruling that Tucker’s repudiation of his claim deprived the…