Schmidt v. City of Crofton & Employers Mutual Companies

Plaintiff, Donavon J. Schmidt, appeals from an order of dismissal entered by the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court on rehearing, with one judge dissenting, in an action against the City of Crofton and Employers Mutual Companies, the city’s insurance carrier. Plaintiff timely appealed to this court. Plaintiff’s three assignments of error may be summarized as one: The Workers’ Compensation Court on rehearing erred in finding that plaintiff had failed to prove causation of his disability by a reasonable degree of medical certainty. We affirm.

The well-settled standard of review in workers’…