Case ID: nw2d_757/html/0179-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "/s/Alan C. Page Associate Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jason J. RUBERTUS, Respondent (A08-1258), Relator (A08-1260), v. SCHWAN’S, INC., and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Relators (A08-1258), Respondents (A08-1260), and D & G Excavating, Inc., and SFM Mutual Insurance Company, Respondents, and Buchholtz Construction, Inc., and Acuity Mutual Insurance Company, Respondents, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Minnesota, and Lincoln, Lyon and Murray County Human Services, and Minnesota Department of Human Services, Intervenors.
    Nos. A08-1258, A08-1260.
    Supreme Court of Minnesota.
    Oct. 29, 2008.
    Luke M. Seifert, Laura A. Moehrle, Quinlivan & Hughes, P.A., St. Cloud, MN, for relator Jason J. Rubertus.
    Robin D. Simpson, Michael C. Greger-son, Aafedt, Forde, Gray, Monson & Hag-er, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for relators Schwan’s, Inc., and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
    Andrew W. Lynn, Lynn, Scharfenberg & Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for respondents D & G Excavating, Inc., and SFM Mutual Insurance Company. Thomas L. Cummings, Jardine, Logan & O’Brien, P.L.L.P., for respondents Buch-holtz Construction, Inc., and Acuity Mutual Insurance Company.
   ORDER

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

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that these appeals are consolidated for purposes of consideration.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals filed July 1, 2008, 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 $1,200 in attorney fees (A08-1258).

BY THE COURT:

/s/Alan C. Page Associate Justice