Smith v. University of Nebraska Medical Center

The plaintiff, an employee of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, filed a petition in the Nebraska Workmen’s Compensation Court for compensation for an injury which occurred on December 21, 1976. At a hearing before a single judge of the compensation court, she was awarded temporary total disability from the date of the accident to the date of the hearing and continuing thereafter until the termination of the total disability. The one-judge court left open the question of the percent of permanent disability as the same had not yet been determined and refused to assess an attorney’s fee…