SCHOPF v. RED OWL STORES, INC.

No. 82-61.

323 N.W.2d 801 (1982)

Walter SCHOPF, Respondent, v. RED OWL STORES, INC., and Commercial Union Assurance Companies, Employer-Insurer, Red Owl Stores, Inc., and Hartford Insurance Group, Relators, and Minneapolis Retail Meat Cutters and Food Handlers Health and Welfare Fund, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 31, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick E. Kaiser, St. Paul, for relators.

David B. Morse, Minneapolis, for Schopf.

Kurt F. Walther, St. Paul, for Minneapolis Retail Meat Cutters and Food Handlers Health and Welfare Fund.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.


WAHL, Justice.

The Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals, with one judge dissenting, awarded Walter Schopf compensation for a permanent partial disability of his right hand and for temporary total disability from July 17, 1979, to August 19, 1979, pursuant to a finding that the lipoma which had caused his disabilities was work-related. Relators, Red Owl Stores, Inc., and its compensation insurer sought review, claiming that employee did not establish a causal relationship...

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