Opinion
A23-0098
06-29-2023
Rogelio Onofre ESPINOZA, Respondent, v. DIRECT HOME HEALTH CARE, INC. and Care Providers Workers’ Compensation Fund with claims administered by Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Relators.
Aaron W. Ferguson, Benjamin M. Kline, Aaron Ferguson Law, P.L.L.C., Roseville, Minnesota, for respondent. Arlen R. Logren, T. Michael Kilbury, Peterson, Logren & Kilbury, P.A., Roseville, Minnesota, for relators.
Aaron W. Ferguson, Benjamin M. Kline, Aaron Ferguson Law, P.L.L.C., Roseville, Minnesota, for respondent.
Arlen R. Logren, T. Michael Kilbury, Peterson, Logren & Kilbury, P.A., Roseville, Minnesota, for relators.
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 of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals filed December 20, 2022, is affirmed without opinion. See Hoff v. Kempton , 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that summary affirmances lack precedential value because "they do not commit the court to any particular point of view," and because they "do no more than establish the law of the case").
Employee is awarded $3,500 in attorney fees.
BY THE COURT:
/s/ Lorie S. Gildea
Lorie S. Gildea
Chief Justice