Cummings v. Omaha Public Schools

Irwin, Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Edward Cummings appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court review panel (panel) which affirmed an order of a trial judge of the Workers’ Compensation Court (compensation court) on remand from this court’s opinion in Cummings v. Omaha Public Schools, 5 Neb. App. 391, 558 N.W.2d 601 (1997). The compensation court awarded Cummings compensation for a 5-percent disability resulting from a series of work-related accidents in 1992 and 1993 which exacerbated Cummings’ back injury from a prior, compensated, work-related accident in 1984. The compensation court…