Dellen Wood Products, Inc. v. Department of Labor & Industries

¶1 Dellen Wood Products Inc. appeals the superior court’s affirmance of the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals’ (Board) decision that Dellen defaulted on its obligations as a self-insured employer and thereby lost its right to its surety funds. Dellen’s first argument presents an issue of first impression: whether the superior court erred in construing “default” under the Industrial Insurance Act1 to mean a self-insured employer’s failure to satisfy its legal obligations under the Act, instead of ruling that “default” means only a self-insured employer’s failure to pay workers’…