Dorman v. Jennie-O-Foods

YETKA, Justice.

The sole issue before us in this workers’ compensation proceeding is whether Minn. Stat. § 176.131, subd. 3(b) (1984) permitted registration of the employee as physically impaired more than 180 days after her employer and its compensation insurer had received notice of a compensable work injury that employee had sustained on September 20, 1980. The state treasurer, custodian of the Special Compensation Fund, denied a petition for registration filed by the employer-insurer on March 18, 1983, because it had not been filed within 180 days after October 24, 1980, when they had…