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KAHL v. MINNESOTA WOOD SPECIALTY, INC.

No. 48961.

277 N.W.2d 395 (1979)

Harold M. KAHL, Respondent, v. MINNESOTA WOOD SPECIALTY, INC., Employer-Petitioner, and Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co., Insurer-Petitioner, Warren Spannaus, Attorney General, State of Minnesota, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

March 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ochs, Larsen, Klimek & Olson, Candice E. Hektner and Gerard J. Ochs, Minneapolis, Richards, Montgomery, Cobb & Bassford and Lynn G. Truesdell, III, Minneapolis, for employer-petitioner and insurer-petitioner.

William C. Hoffman, St. Paul, for Kahl.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Richard Allyn, Sol. Gen., Winston Ehlmann, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for State of Minnesota.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.

ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

The narrow issue presented by these proceedings initiated in this court for a writ of prohibition is whether, in a workers' compensation proceeding to impose a penalty for unreasonably and vexatiously delaying payment pursuant to Minn.St. 176.225, an employer-insurer is precluded from asserting the attorney-client privilege. We hold that the applicable provisions of our workers' compensation laws do...

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