Van Ness v. State, Department of Education.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “doubt as to the cause of the injury represents a salient index of the absence of substantial evidence required to overcome the presumption that the claim is compensable.” 38 *** FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAIʻI REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER *** (quotation marks omitted)
• “The relevant issue under the unitary or ‘work-connection approach’ is simply whether there is a causal connection between the injury and any incidents or conditions of employment[.]”
• “[T]he broad humanitarian purpose of the workers’ compensation statute read as a whole requires that all reasonable doubts be resolved in favor of the claimant.” (quoting Lawhead v. United Air Lines, 59 Haw. 551, 560, 584 P.2d 119, 125 (1978))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).