Parks v. Norman Municipal Hospital

OPALA, Justice:

The principal question presented for our determination concerns the standard to be applied in this court (and in the Court of Appeals) on review of a decision made by a three-judge panel of the Workers’ Compensation Court which changed or modified the factual findings of the trial judge.

We hold that while the three-judge panel is governed, in its re-examination of the trial judge’s factual findings, by the, clear-weight-of-the-evidence standard, the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeals, in reviewing the panel-altered factual determinations, must apply the…