Joan Van Riper, Employee-Respondent/Cross-Appellant v. Interstate Packaging, Inc. Employer-Relator/Cross-Appeal and Cincinnati Insurance Company, Insurer-Relator/Cross-Appeal and Mason City Clinic, Mason City Surgery Center, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota Department of Employment Economic Development, Spectrum Rehabilitation Services, Inc., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, and, UNUM Life Insurance Company, Intervenors.
Minnesota Supreme Court
Joan Van Riper, Employee-Respondent/Cross-Appellant v. Interstate Packaging, Inc. Employer-Relator/Cross-Appeal and Cincinnati Insurance Company, Insurer-Relator/Cross-Appeal and Mason City Clinic, Mason City Surgery Center, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota Department of Employment Economic Development, Spectrum Rehabilitation Services, Inc., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, and, UNUM Life Insurance Company, Intervenors.
Opinion
STATE OF MINNESOTA
prJanuary 27, 2016
IN SUPREME COURT Om~EOF
APPB.I.AJECcurn
AlS-1156
Joan Van Riper,
Employee-Respondent/
Cross-Appellant,
vs.
Interstate Packaging, Inc.
Employer-Relator/
Cross-Appeal Respondent,
and
Cincinnati Insurance Company,
Insurer-Relator/
Cross-Appeal Respondent,
and
Mason City Clinic,
Mason City Surgery Center,
Mayo Clinic,
Minnesota Department of Employment Economic Development,
Spectrum Rehabilitation Services, Inc.,
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, and,
UNUM Life Insurance Company,
Intervenors.
Donaldson V. Lawhead, Lawhead Law Offices, Austin, Minnesota, for respondent.
Timothy S. Crom and Nicholas M. Matchen, Jardine, Logan & O'Brien, PLLP, Lake Elmo,
Minnesota, for relators.
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Considered and decided by the court without oral argument.
ORDER
Based upon all the files, records, and proceedings herein,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision ofthe Workers' Compensation Court
of Appeals filed and served on June 26, 2015, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion.
See Hoffv. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that "[s]ummary
affnmances have no precedential value because they do not commit the court to any
particular point of view," doing no more than establishing the law of the case).
Employee is awarded $1,200 in attorney fees.
Dated: January 27, 2016
BY 1HE COURT:
Natalie E. Hudson
Associate Justice
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