Stansbury v. HEP, INC.

I. INTRODUCTION

The Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court entered judgment directing the defendant-appellee employer, HEP, Inc., to pay the plaintiff-appellant employee, Carl Stansbury, in addition to the compensation benefits it had already paid him or on his behalf, benefits for a 10-percent loss of earning capacity and for a 12-week period of vocational rehabilitation. Claiming that he was entitled to greater benefits, as more particularly set forth in part IV(2) below, Stansbury appealed to the Nebraska Court of Appeals, which in part affirmed and in part reversed the judgment of the…