Muncrief v. Memorial Hospital of Southern Oklahoma

OPALA, Justice.

The dispositive issue on certiorari is whether the Workers’ Compensation Court’s three-judge review panel correctly proceeded on remand of the claim by the Court of Appeals’ when it reexamined the record and sustained the trial judge’s decision denying benefits to the claimant. We answer in the affirmative.

Margaret Muncrief [claimant] sought benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act1 [Act] after she allegedly contracted an occupational disease. The trial judge denied her benefits. He found that she neither sustained an accidental injury nor contracted a disease that was…