Fischer v. State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation Div.
Decision Date | 27 March 1987 |
Docket Number | No. 86-263,86-263 |
Citation | 734 P.2d 558 |
Parties | Rick FISCHER, Appellant (Employee/Claimant), v. The STATE of Wyoming, ex rel. WYOMING WORKERS' COMPENSATION DIVISION, Appellee (Objector/Defendant), Holiday Inn, (Employer/Defendant). |
Court | Wyoming Supreme Court |
John S. Wolfe of Banks, Johnson, Wolfe & Hallock, Gillette, for appellant.
A.G. McClintock, Atty. Gen., Josephine T. Porter, Asst. Atty. Gen., Patrick J. Crank, Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellee.
Before BROWN, C.J., and THOMAS, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and MACY, JJ.
This is an appeal from the district court's denial of an award of permanent partial disability benefits and request for further vocational evaluation based on the district court's conclusion that appellant-employee failed to carry his burden of proving that he had sustained any permanent partial disability or that further vocational evaluation was a necessity.
We affirm.
On January 5, 1986, appellant Rick Fischer, a 32-year old maintenance man, slipped and fell on a wet floor while at work, injuring his back. At the time he was employed by the Holiday Inn located in Gillette, Wyoming. Upon seeking medical treatment, appellant was diagnosed by Dr. Gerald Baker as suffering from an acute musculoligamentous strain of the lumbar spine. Thereafter, he participated in an outpatient physical therapy program under the care of Dr. Patrick McDonald. Appellant was awarded temporary total benefits and medical costs.
On July 8, 1986, appellant filed a motion for examination and award of permanent partial disability payments. That motion alleged that appellant had suffered a vocational impairment as a result of the injury sustained, and requested an examination by appropriate vocational evaluators to determine the impact of his condition upon his ability to perform the work for which he was experienced and trained. The state objected to such an award or evaluation.
At trial, the district court after hearing evidence, concluded that appellant was not entitled to receive any permanent partial disability award and further, that appellant was not entitled to a vocational evaluation. This appeal is from that order.
Appellant states the relevant issues to be determined on appeal by this court as follows:
Appellee restates the issues in a single argumentatively fashioned issue, but appears to agree with appellant's statement of the issues.
For disposition of this case we rephrase the issue on appeal as whether or not the trial court erred or abused its discretion when it determined that appellant be denied an award of permanent partial disability pursuant to § 27-12-403, W.S.1977 (June 1983 Replacement), and whether he was entitled to a vocational evaluation.
As has been stated numerous times our standard of review is well established. On appeal we accept the evidence of the prevailing party as true, leaving out of consideration the evidence presented by the unsuccessful party in conflict therewith, giving every favorable inference which may fairly and reasonably be drawn from the prevailing party's evidence. Matter of Arcoren, Wyo., 730 P.2d 128 (1986); Matter of Abas, Wyo., 701 P.2d 1153 (1985); Stockton v. Sowerwine, Wyo., 690 P.2d 1202 (1984). Matter of Arcoren, supra, at 129.
* * * "Worker's Compensation Claim of Cannon v. FMC Corporation, Wyo., 718 P.2d 879, 882 (1986).
Further we note that:
Matter of Arcoren, supra at 130.
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