Fenner v. Trimac Transportation, Inc.

[¶ 21] I am unable to support the result here or decipher the Court’s logic in reaching it. If the majority is saying that when a doctor recommends vocational retraining for a change in employment, an employee must immediately quit work, I reject it as unsound. If the majority is saying that upon such advice, failure to quit one’s job constitutes misconduct, I renounce it as repugnant to the beneficent principles of workers’ compensation.

[¶22] Our workers’ compensation laws were enacted to “provide an injured employee a remedy which is both expeditious and independent of proof of fault” and…