Cannia v. Douglas County

The defendant, Douglas County, Nebraska, has appealed from the award of compensation on rehearing by the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court to the plaintiff, Joseph S. Cannia, for a knee injury which he sustained while attending a course in jail management at the Law Enforcement Training Center in Grand Island, Nebraska. The principal issue is whether the plaintiff’s injury arose out of and in the course of his employment by the defendant.

After the one-judge hearing on January 28, 1991, the plaintiff was awarded $231.44 per week for temporary total disability for 92A weeks and payment of…