Pearson v. Lincoln Telephone Co.

Sievers, Chief Judge.

In this case, we address the scope of review by a three-judge panel of the Workers’ Compensation Court (review panel) after trial of the case to a single judge of the Workers’ Compensation Court (trial judge or trial court). Rehearings before three-judge panels were eliminated in 1992 Neb. Laws, L.B. 360, in favor of a trial on the record to a single judge followed by review of that record by a three-judge panel. See Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-179 (Cum. Supp. 1992).

The trial judge dismissed the petition of Clinton D. Pearson, who claimed hearing loss by “accident arising out of…