Court Opinion

ID: 9718373
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:21:55.002636+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:58.795992
License: Public Domain

SABERS, Justice
(dissenting).
[¶ 20.] It seems like a complete waste of time, money, and effort to “disavow jurisdiction and send the parties to the courts for relief’ in this case. Why “disavow jurisdiction” and require the case to be restarted in circuit court? After all, the case was already in the Department of Labor, which has expertise in handling workers’ compensation claims and eases.
[¶ 21.] This is a relatively simple matter of apportioning liability for workers’ compensation payments among insurers. The Department accepted the workers’ compensation matter and it would have been over by now, but for the appeal to the circuit court.
[¶ 22.] The judicial system has too much to do to waste time on frivolous appeals involving matters which could have been completely resolved with the expenditure of fewer judicial resources and some common sense.
[¶ 23.] Additionally, the letter and spirit of both SDCL 62-7-38 and SDCL 62-4-29, as set forth in the majority opinion, support the prompt resolution of this apportionment dispute.