Opinion ID: 6534446
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Was the Medical Commission's decision arbitrary and capricious?

Text: [¶37] We also apply the arbitrary and capricious standard as a safety net to catch agency action, which prejudices a party's substantial rights or which may be contrary to the other review standards under the Administrative Procedure Act, yet is not easily categorized or fit to any one particular standard. McIntosh v. State ex rel. Wyo. Workers' Safety & Comp. Div. , 2013 WY 135 , ¶ 31, 311 P.3d 608 , 616 (Wyo. 2013) (citations omitted). Examples of arbitrary and capricious actions include making inconsistent or incomplete findings of facts or conclusions of law, failing to admit testimony or other evidence that was clearly admissible, or violating a party's right of due process. Id. ; Rodgers , 2006 WY 65 , ¶ 19, 135 P.3d at 575 . [¶38] In her brief, Ms. Harborth concludes each of her arguments by asserting that the Medical Commission's decision was contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence, contrary to its own findings, contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious, and should be reversed, but only makes one specific allegation that the Medical Commission acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining Dr. Ritter-Lang's procedure to be alternative medicine. Ms. Harborth stated that it was just as arbitrary and capricious for the Medical Commission to admit documents and testimony into evidence and then arbitrarily ignore them, as it [was] to refuse admission in the first place. Ms. Harborth merely requests us to reweigh the evidence, a task we will not undertake. Hildebrant , 2015 WY 41 , ¶ 12, 345 P.3d at 879 . The Medical Commission accepted into the record all the evidence offered by the parties. The Medical Commission considered the testimony of Ms. Harborth and Ms. Gibson, the information from the Enande website, the opinion of Dr. Ritter-Lang, as well as the successful outcome of Ms. Harborth's surgery. We conclude that the Medical Commission's decision was not arbitrary or capricious.