Bohlmann v. Alaska Construction & Engineering, Inc.

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

To what extent must the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board inform or guide pro se claimants? Alaska Statute 23.30.110(c) requires denial of a workers’ compensation claim if the claimant does not file a request for a hearing within two years after the employer files a controversion notice. Pro se claimant Theodore Bohlmann filed his request for hearing August 31, 2005, slightly more than two years after his employer filed a notice of controversion on August 6, 2003. The board then denied his claim. Because the board should have corrected the employer’s…