STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRY BY THE SPECIAL COMPENSATION FUND v. Wintz Parcel Drivers, Inc.

ORDER

Based upon ail the files, records and proceedings herein,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition of Wintz Parcel Drivers, Inc. and George L. Wintz for farther review of a decision of the court of appeals filed November 26, 1996 be, and the same is, granted for the limited purpose of reducing the $1,019,220 penalty to $317,064, the reasonable market cost of insurance without any deductions, leaving the $200,000 “pure” penalty in place, making the total penalty due $517,064. While it may be, as petitioners suggest, that the penalty provision is essentially punitive, thereby requiring a…