Sloan v. North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance

MARING, Justice.

[¶ 1] Claud Sloan appeals from a district court judgment affirming a Workforce Safety & Insurance (“WSI”) order awarding him additional permanent impairment benefits. We affirm, concluding WSI’s promulgation of administrative rules for assessing pain impairment does not conflict with its statutory authority and was not arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable.

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[¶ 2] In December 1985, Sloan sustained a compensable work-related injury while employed at a coal gasification plant in Beulah, North Dakota. WSI awarded Sloan permanent impairment benefits for his injury and has issued…