Title: Joan Van Riper, Employee-Respondent/Cross-Appellant, vs. Interstate Packaging, Inc. Employer-Relator/Cross-Appeal Respondent, and Cincinnati Insurance Company, Insurer-Relator/Cross-Appeal Respondent, and Mason City Clinic, Mason City Surgery Center, Mayo
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: A15-1156
State: Minnesota
Issuer: Minnesota Supreme Court
Date: February 3, 2016

January 27, 2016 STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT Joan Van Riper, vs. Employee-Respondent/ Cross-Appellant, Interstate Packaging, Inc. and Employer-Relator/ Cross-Appeal Respondent, Cincinnati Insurance Company, and Insurer-Relator/ Cross-Appeal Respondent, Mason City Clinic, Mason City Surgery Center, Mayo Clinic, AlS-1156 Minnesota Department of Employment Economic Development, Spectrum Rehabilitation Services, Inc., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, and, UNUM Life Insurance Company, Intervenors. pr Om~EOF APPB.I.AJECcurn Donaldson V. Lawhead, Lawhead Law Offices, Austin, Minnesota, for respondent. Timothy S. Crom and Nicholas M. Matchen, Jardine, Logan & O'Brien, PLLP, Lake Elmo, Minnesota, for relators. 1 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 ofthe Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals filed and served on June 26, 2015, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion. See Hoffv. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that "[s]ummary affnmances 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. Dated: January 27, 2016 2 BY 1HE COURT: Natalie E. Hudson Associate Justice