Court Opinion

ID: 9585048
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:55:33.277825+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:27:08.386296
License: Public Domain

*383Maupin, J.,
concurring:
I agree with the result reached by the majority. I write separately to note my disagreement with the majority’s affirmation of the instruction containing the language from NRS 616C.530. That provision sets priorities for workers’ compensation insurers in their efforts to return injured workers to work. The priorities articulated do not create a legal standard governing an employer’s re-assimilation of an injured worker to the work place. I can see no legislative intent to that effect. Thus, the instruction was couched in terms of a specific duty that did not apply to employers. However, because the statutory language did not add a great deal to the standard of recovery that respondent was required to satisfy below, the giving of the statutory instruction was harmless error.
I also wish to emphasize in this separate opinion my view that the enactment of NRS 616D.030 was in no way calculated to overturn our decision in Hansen v. Harrah’s, 100 Nev. 60, 675 P.2d 394 (1984), and its progeny.