CHAD OLSON, Respondent, v. TOTAL SPECIALTY CONTRACTING, LLC, and FEDERATED MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., Relators.

SUPREME COURT – JULY 8, 2024
No. A23-1851
WCCA No. WC23-6510

Attorneys:  Michael F. Scully, Marcia K. Miller, SiebenCarey, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for respondent.  William R. Moody, Sydney J. Harris, Fitch Johnson Larson, P.A., Roseville, Minnesota, for relators.

Considered without oral argument.

Affirmed without opinion.

OPINION

PROCACCINI, 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 November 9, 2023, is affirmed without opinion.  See Hoff v. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (“Summary affirmances have no precedential value because they do not commit the court to any particular point of view.  They do no more than establish the law of the case.”).

Employee is awarded $3,500 in attorney fees.  Order Regarding Attorney Fee Awards in Appeals from the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals, No. ADM09-8006, Order at 2 (Minn. filed Oct. 30, 2017); see Minn. Stat. § 176.511, subd. 5 (2022).