WORKER'S COMPENSATION CLAIM OF JACOBS

Nos. 95-229, 95-237.

924 P.2d 982 (1996)

In the Matter of the WORKER'S COMPENSATION CLAIM OF Kirk B. JACOBS, An Employee of Medicine Bow Ski Area. STATE of Wyoming, ex rel. WYOMING WORKERS' COMPENSATION DIVISION, Appellant (Respondent), v. Kirk B. JACOBS, Appellee (Employee-Claimant). In the Matter of the WORKER'S COMPENSATION CLAIM OF Kirk B. JACOBS, An Employee of Medicine Bow Ski Area. Kirk B. JACOBS, Appellant (Employee-Claimant), v. STATE of Wyoming, ex rel., WYOMING WORKERS' COMPENSATION DIVISION, Appellee (Respondent).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied November 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William U. Hill, Attorney General; John W. Renneisen, Deputy Attorney General; Gerald W. Laska, Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Jennifer A. Evans, Assistant Attorney General, Cheyenne, for State ex rel. Wyoming Workers' Compensation Division.

George Santini, Cheyenne, for Kirk B. Jacobs.

Before TAYLOR, C.J., THOMAS, MACY and LEHMAN, JJ., and BRACKLEY, District Judge.


TAYLOR, Chief Justice.

The Wyoming Workers' Compensation Division appeals a hearing examiner's award of home health care to an injured worker. The worker cross appeals, asking that a rate of compensation be set for his home health care. Holding that the award of non-professional health care by the hearing examiner exceeds his authority in the absence of a mutual agreement between the employee, employer and the director of the Workers' Compensation Division, we reverse...

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