A divided Minnesota Supreme Court on Friday overturned an award of benefits to a veteran lineman for a telecommunications company who tried to live with his back pain over the course of his employment and did not file his claim until two years after his last day of work. Claimant's counsel DeAnna M. McCashinof Schoep & McCashin remarked on Monday that her client, Karl Anderson, was "truly a salt of the earth guy who worked 30 years for this company," and "essentially gave them all his health," but "in exchange for that, he gets nothing." McCashin predicted the high court'...
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