Ruether v. State

COYNE, Justice.

We review by certiorari a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals reversing the compensation judge’s denial of benefits. The WCCA affirmed the compensation judge’s determination that the employee had not sustained a compensable occupational disease, but it found that the employee had sustained a compensable brain injury as a result of contact with toxic chemicals at work and awarded wage loss benefits. We reverse.

After working as a medical technician in the Mankato State University Student Health Service for about eight years, the employee took a leave of absence…