McClanahan v. Raley's, Inc.

OPINION

This case arises out of a contested workers’ compensation claim. The question presented on appeal is whether the district court improperly reweighed the evidence and substituted its judgment for that of the administrative appeals officer. We conclude that the district court did usurp the appeals officer’s function, and we therefore reverse the district court’s order.

On July 29, 1997, appellant Kelly McClanahan, then twenty-nine years old and a ten-year employee of respondent Raley’s, Inc., slipped and fell on a wet concrete floor in the meat department at Raley’s in Fallon. At the time…