Kiesecker v. Webster City Custom Meats, Inc.

LARSON, Justice.

Duane Francis Kiesecker, Jr. has appealed from an award of workers’ compensation benefits, penalties, and interest, claiming they were inadequate. He also complains that the district court erred in assessing him half of the coste of the agency appeal and subsequent judicial review. We affirm on all issues.

The parties stipulated most of the facts underlying the claim. On November 27, 1987, Kiesecker suffered a work-related cumulative trauma to both knees, causing a condition called bilateral chondromalacia. According to the medical evidence, he had aggravated a preexisting…