Goff v. Bil-Mar Foods, Inc.

In these combined cases, we must decide whether the Worker’s Compensation Appellate Commission acted within the proper scope of its reviewing power in concluding that the magistrates’ findings supporting the grant of benefits were not supported by competent, material, and substantial evidence on the whole record. In both cases, the WCAC reversed the magistrates’ awards and the Court of Appeals affirmed. We affirm in Goff and reverse in Dudley.

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The questions presented concern the proper interpretation and scope of the “competent, material, and substantial evidence on the whole record” standard…