Opinion ID: 2642705
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Text: ¶1 We granted certiorari in this case to determine two questions. First, we must decide whether the court of appeals erred in reviewing a Labor Commission decision, which applied law to fact, for an “abuse of discretion” rather than as a mixed question of law and fact. Second, we must decide whether the court of appeals erred in ruling that an employee who injured his back when a small wave unexpectedly rocked his boat failed to establish that it was his act of steadying himself, rather than a preexisting back condition, that was the legal cause of his injury. We conclude that the court of appeals should have reviewed the Labor Commission’s decision in this case as a traditional mixed MURRAY v. LABOR COMMISSION Opinion of the Court question of law and fact. But we ultimately uphold the court of appeals’ conclusion that the employee failed to establish legal cause.