Opinion ID: 1637264
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Amount of Award for Cost of Proceedings

Text: In her cross-appeal, Landman challenges the amount of the award she was granted under section 287.560 as a result of ICS's unreasonable conduct. She argues, in part, that the cost of Dr. Poetz's deposition transcript should have been included in the 1997 award and that Dr. Altsheler's deposition fee and transcript cost should have been included in the 1999 award. There is no direct evidence of the cost of the transcripts. Even though the transcripts themselves were in evidence and perhaps an estimation of their cost could have been calculated using a standard rate for transcription, there was no evidence of that rate. Likewise, the evidence of Dr. Altsheler's deposition fee was in the record, but only in a letter attached to his deposition transcript enclosing a check payable to the doctor for the estimated time he would spend giving his deposition. None of this is overwhelming evidence contrary to the commission's findings that there was no specific proof of Landman's cost of proceedings. See Pulitzer Pub. Co., 596 S.W.2d at 417. This evidence of costs was before the commission, and this Court will not disturb the decision to discount it.