Case Title: Fleury v. Kessel Duff Construction

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State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1989-06-01T00:00:00Z

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                                No. 88-100


Glenn Fleury                                 Supreme Court

                                             On Appeal from
     v.                                      Commissioner of Labor
                                             and Industry

Kessel/Duff Construction                     June Term, 1989



Jeanne Van Vlandren, Commissioner

Anthony B. Lamb and David D. Barra of Paul, Frank & Collins, Inc.,
  Burlington, for plaintiff-appellant

Harold E. Eaton, Jr., of Miller, Cleary & Faignant, Ltd., Rutland, for
           defendant-appellee



PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Peck, Dooley and Morse, JJ., and Keyser, J. (Ret.),
          Specially Assigned


     DOOLEY, J.   Plaintiff, Glenn Fleury, appeals the denial by the
Commissioner of Labor and Industry (Commissioner) of an award of attorney's
fees in connection with a workers' compensation proceeding before the
Commissioner.  Plaintiff argues that he prevailed in his case and thus is
entitled to attorney's fees even though his request was made after the
underlying award was affirmed in this Court.  We reverse and remand.
     This is the third time we have rendered a decision in this case.  The
case was first here as an appeal by the employer of an award of permanent
total disability benefits to plaintiff.  Plaintiff prevailed fully in that
appeal.  Fleury v. Kessel/Duff Constr. Co., 148 Vt. 415,