Jacobson Transportation Co. v. Harris

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting the “fundamental purpose of the workers’ compensation statute is to benefit the injured workers”
• interpreting section 85.36 to determine whether employee’s earnings in certain weeks were “customary”
• interpreting section 85.36 to determine whether employee’s earnings in certain weeks were “customary”
• agreeing with agency that issue under section 85.36 is whether the hours of work in any particular work week are representative of “the hours typically or customarily worked by an employee during a typical or customary full week of work ”
• “[W]orkers’ compensation statutes are to be interpreted and applied liberally and flexibly for the benefit of the worker.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).