Court Opinion

ID: 9523616
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:44:45.742078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:06:47.006745
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YETKA, Justice
(dissenting).
I would affirm the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals; thus, I dissent from the majority opinion. The record discloses that, for a period of months, namely, from February through May 1986, Mr. Redgate made numerous inquiries of prospective employers from whom he was seeking work. He received job opportunity notices from the newspapers and personal contacts. Moreover, he kept a log of those contacts for that period. The notations in the log were not successfully rebutted.
What further evidence must an employee submit to prove a search to find work? I agree with the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals, which found that Red-gate made a diligent search for work and that the employer produced no evidence that Redgate had failed to conduct such a search. The Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals was thus justified under our enunciated standards of review in reversing the compensation judge.