Solberg v. FMC Corp., Northern Ordinance Division

KELLEY, Justice.

Relators, FMC Corporation and its compensation insurer, challenge a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals awarding FMC’s employee Tor Sol-berg concurrent temporary total disability and retraining benefits pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 176.101, subd. 7 (1978). Having concluded that Minn.Stat. § 176.102, subd. 11 (1980) governs the amount of compensation payable to employee during retraining, we reverse the decision insofar as it awarded compensation.

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