Liberty v. Colonial Acres Nursing Home

Citing insufficient evidence as its reason, the Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court, upon rehearing, dismissed Luann M. Liberty’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits, and she appeals. We affirm the majority ruling of the three-judge panel.

In deciding this case, we need discuss only the first of appellant’s five assignments of error: that the compensation court “erred in finding the plaintiff failed to sustain her burden of proof in connection with the causal relationship between her accident on January 1,1989 and her current disability.”

This court has long held that a claimant has the…