Spangler v. State

The employee plaintiff-appellant, David Spangler, Sr., challenges the denial of workers’ compensation benefits from his former employer, defendant-appellee State of Nebraska. His assignments of error merge to claim that the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court erred in concluding that (1) he failed to sustain his burden of proving that his employment exertion or stress contributed in some material and substantial degree to cause the disability he suffers as the consequence of heart disease, and (2) Neb. Rev. Stat. § 18-1723 (Reissue 1987), which raises a rebuttable presumption that there is…