Cases — July 7th through 13th, 2019

Workers’ Compensation ~ Occupational Safety & Disease

*Crampton v. Commissioner (10th Cir., July 11, 2019) (affirming denial of disability benefits: substantial evidence supported the ALJ’s decision to give the treating physician’s opinion little weight)

Energy West Mining Company v. Lyle (10th Cir., July 9, 2019) (vacating award of benefits and remanding for reconsideration: the judge erroneously discounted the main medical opinion on legal pneumoconiosis)

Wallace v. Labor Commission (Utah Ct. App., July 11, 2019) (declining to disturb denial of benefits: substantial evidence supported the Commission’s conclusion that Wallace was not totally disabled)

*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.