Tlamka v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

This is an appeal from the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company appeals from the award to Jerry R. Tlamka on rehearing.

Tlamka’s petition in the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court was dismissed, after a hearing by a single judge of the court, on the basis that Tlamka failed to show that an accident at work was the cause of the injury at issue or that surgery was necessitated by the accident. On rehearing, a three-judge panel of the Workers’ Compensation Court awarded the appellee $750 in attorney fees, $105.60 in deposition costs, $1,828.58 in *790additional…