DANIEL S. JAMES, Respondent, v. DULUTH CLINIC and BERKLEY RISK ADM’RS CO., LLC, Relator.

SUPREME COURT – JANUARY 8, 2019
No. A18-1498
WCCA No. WC18-6128

Attorneys:  Eric W. Beyer, SiebenCarey, Duluth, Minnesota, for the Respondent.  Edward Q. Cassidy, Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the Relator.

Affirmed without opinion.

ORDER

ANDERSON, Justice

Based upon all the files, records, and proceedings herein,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals filed August 21, 2018, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion.  See Hoff v. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that “[s]ummary affirmances 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 $3,500 in attorney fees.