Baeta v. Don Tripp Trucking

This is an appeal from the Workers’ Compensation Court, the Honorable Timothy W. Reardon presiding. The Workers’ Compensation Court determined that claimant Thomas Baeta was entitled to $46,825 in benefits and an award of reasonable attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to §§ 39-71-612 and -614, MCA (1985). The court denied Baeta’s request for attorney’s fees and costs incurred in litigating the fee and cost issue. Baeta now appeals from that judgment. We affirm.

The issues are:

1. Did the Workers’ Compensation Court err in limiting State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund’s (State Fund) liability…