Stotz v. Sabin Bros.

Certiorari on the relation of Sabin Brothers and its compensation insurer to review a decision of the Worker’s Compensation Court of Appeals awarding compensation to employee, Jerome Stotz, for disability resulting from work-related injuries. The only significant issue is whether, as relators contend, the compensation court improperly disregarded the report of a neutral medical examiner. We hold that it did not and affirm.

Employee, a construction worker, was forced twice to jump some 8 feet to the ground when a 10-ton roller he was attempting to load onto a trailer began to tip. He felt pain…