Opinion ID: 2083424
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Waiver of a Second Appellate Review

Text: One of the important cost-reducing features of section 176.1812 is that it authorizes the parties to streamline appellate review of a claim by limiting it to one review, to be provided: either by the workers' compensation court of appeals in the same manner as an award or order of a compensation judge or, in lieu of review by the workers' compensation court of appeals, by the office of administrative hearings, by the district court, by the Minnesota court of appeals, or by the supreme court, in the same manner as the workers' compensation court of appeals   . Minn.Stat. § 176.1812, subd. 1(a). This language authorizes the parties to provide for appellate review by selecting any one of the listed bodies and, conversely, to waive the right to appellate review by any of the other listed bodies. Kline's union opted to waive appellate review by this court when it entered into a collective bargaining agreement that adopted Rule 6.5 of the Fund. By doing so, Kline's union selected the WCCA as the body to provide appellate review and waived the right to appellate review by any other body.