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Title: Delane Luehring v. Tibbs Construction
Author : Supreme Court of Nebraska
Release Date : January 20, 1990
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 64 KB

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Plaintiff-appellee, DeLane Luehring, brought this action when defendants-appellants, Tibbs Construction Company and Bituminous
Insurance Companies, reduced his workers' compensation benefits. Defendants appeal from the judgment granting Luehring total
disability benefits. Their three assignments of error combine to assert that the compensation court erred in finding (1) that
Luehring continues to be totally disabled as a result of his work-related accident and (2) that efforts at vocationally rehabilitating
Luehring would have been futile as of the date of the award. We affirm. The injury which precipitated this action occurred on March 17, 1985, when, in the course of his employment with Tibbs Construction,
Luehring, who is 49 years old and has but a high school education, fell approximately 20 feet from a ladder, fracturing his
left hip and rupturing a disk in his back. Luehring suffered from low back pain after the fall, and a myelogram later revealed
"a large defect at the L4-5 with possibly an additional defect at L3-4." On March 24, 1986, Luehring underwent a "laminectomy
and disc excision L4Å“5 on the right," but his symptoms were not alleviated by this procedure. Luehring then underwent a "posterolateral
L4-5 spine fusion" on April 29, 1987. While this procedure did not eliminate his symptoms, Luehring did become involved in
rehabilitative activities after the latter operation.