Legal Opinion
Kwikset/Emhart v. Mayberry
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided October 23, 1990No. 70147PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.
The dispositive issue on certiorari is whether a Workers’ Compensation Court review panel may modify the trial judge’s fact finding that limits claimant’s on-the-job injury in contest to her left hand and arm by adding another compensable injury — that to her right shoulder — based solely on medical reports and without the aid of a transcript of the hearing held before the trial judge. We answer this question in the negative.
The trial judge found that the claimant had sustained a work-related injury to her left hand and arm but denied compensation for a claimed…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Womack v. City of Oklahoma CitySupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1986
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