Yeatman v. Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid

OPALA, V.C.J.

¶ 1 This certiorari presses two questions for our decision: (1) Whether the Court of Civil Appeals (COCA) erred when it sustained the Workers’ Compensation Court’s (WCC) refusal to recognize an order made approximately ñve-months earlier? and (2) Did COCA err when it placed upon the claimant the burden of proving her continued temporary total disability? We answer both questions in the affirmative.

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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION

¶ 2 Betty Yeatman (Yeatman or claimant), an employee of Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid (with CompSource, its insurance carrier, collectively…