Olsen v. Samuel McIntyre Investment Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the court does not look beyond an unambiguous statute and that retroactive legislative enactments are not applied in pending cases except in a few narrow circumstances not applicable here
• holding that modified version of Workers' Compensation Act could not be applied retroactively where the rights and duties of the employer and the worker's dependents had been defined under the prior version of the law
• reviewing Industrial Commission's statutory construction for correctness on writ of certiorari to court of appeals
• “[I]n workers’ compensation cases, we generally apply the law in effect at the time of the employee’s injury.”
• \ 'Only when we find ambiguity in the statute's plain language need we seek guidance from the legislative histoiy and relevant policy considerations.’\
• “A long-standing rule of statutory construction is that we do not apply retroactively legislative enactments that alter substantive law or affect vested rights unless the legislature has clearly expressed that intention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).