Opinion

W.M. Schlosser Co. v. Uninsured Employer's Fund

  • 414 Md. 195
  • 994 A.2d 956
  • 2010 Md. LEXIS 190
Court
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Filed
May 12, 2010
Status
Published
On the bench
Battaglia
Cited by
22 cases
Authority
More cited than 9.0%

explaining that the Commission's conclusions are adequately supported as long as "a reasoning mind reasonably could have reached the factual conclusion" reached by the Commission

How later courts described this case

  • explaining that the Commission's conclusions are adequately supported as long as "a reasoning mind reasonably could have reached the factual conclusion" reached by the Commission
  • stating that in a workers’ compensation case, “the first question to be resolved is whether [the claimant] is a ‘covered employee’ ”
  • the Fund’s purpose is “benevolent and remedial, that being ‘to protect injured workers whose employers failed, either willfully or negligently, to carry workers’ compensation insurance for them.’ ”
  • cautioning that appellate review does not include reviewing factual findings

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Dissenting Opinion by HARRELL, J., which BARBERA, J., joins

1 dissent. I would affirm the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals (which reversed the Circuit Court for Baltimore County) for the reasons stated in that court’s reported opinion in this matter, 186 Md.App. 599 , 975 A.2d 221 (2009).

Judge BARBERA authorizes me to state that she joins this dissenting opinion.

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