Swan v. Sletten Construction Co.

Sandra Swan Appeals a Workers’ Compensation Court order which declines to award her attorney’s fees on a lump sum basis. The issues on appeal are (1) whether the lower court erred in refusing to award attorney’s fees to appellant’s counsel on a lump sum basis, and (2) whether the lower court erred in refusing to award attorney’s fees to appellant’s counsel for benefits received by appellant’s step-daughter. We affirm.

In September 1982, Donald Swan died in an automobile accident in Wyoming. Sandra Swan, who had married Donald Swan three months earlier, made a claim for workers’ compensation…