Workforce Safety & Insurance v. Auck

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] Workforce Safety and Insurance (“WSI”) and Bobcat Company appeal a district court order affirming an Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ”) order reversing WSI’s denial of death benefits to Cynthia Auck, the surviving spouse of Richard Auck (“Auck”). Because a reasoning mind reasonably could have determined the preponderance of the evidence proved a com-pensable injury, we affirm.

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[¶ 2] Auck began working for Bobcat Company, which was then the Melroe Manufacturing Company, in 1974. The majority of his time at the company was spent as an assembler. In November 2006, he…