Workers' Compensation Claim of Little America Refining Co. v. Witt

GOLDEN, Justice.

An employer challenges a worker’s compensation award to its employee on three grounds:

First, the employer questions whether the independent hearing examiner had jurisdiction to issue an order scheduling a contested case hearing before the worker’s compensation division had taken its final action on the worker’s claim. We hold that the hearing examiner had jurisdiction to issue the scheduling order.

Second, the employer asserts that the award decision must be reversed because the employee failed timely to report the occurrence and general nature of the accident to the employer…