Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. Gee

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an award of workers’ compensation benefits to James Gee. The jury found that Gee was totally and permanently disabled from an injury that extended to and affected his body generally. Because testimony by witnesses who had not been identified in response to interrogatories was improperly admitted into evidence, we reverse the judgment and remand the cause for a new trial.

James Marcus Gee was employed by Campbell Soup as a slitter operator. While he was in the course of his employment on February 8, 1982, a metal pallet slid off a hydraulic roller…