Nebraska Statutes 48-162. Compensation court; duties; powers
(1) The Nebraska Workers’ Compensation Court, or any judge thereof, is authorized and empowered to examine under oath or otherwise any person, employee, employer, agent, superintendent, supervisor, or officer of any partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, any officer of any domestic insurance company, any agent of any foreign insurance company, or any medical practitioner, to issue subpoenas for the appearance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, to solemnize marriages, and to administer oaths with like effect as is done in other courts of law in this state. In the examination of any witness and in requiring the production of books, papers, and other evidence, the compensation court shall have and exercise all of the powers of a judge, magistrate, or other officer in the taking of depositions or the examination of witnesses, including the power to enforce his or her orders by commitment for refusal to answer or for the disobedience of any such order.
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 48-162
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Domestic: when applied to corporations shall mean all those created by authority of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Foreign: when applied to corporations shall include all those created by authority other than that of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Magistrate: shall include judge of the county court and clerk magistrate. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
(2) The compensation court or any judge thereof may, upon the motion of either party or upon its or his or her own motion, require the production of any books, documents, payrolls, medical reports, X-rays, photographs, or plates or any facts or matters which may be necessary to assist in a determination of the rights of either party in any matter pending before the compensation court or any judge thereof.
(3) The compensation court or any judge thereof may expedite the hearing of a disputed case when there is an emergency.
Source
- Laws 1917, c. 85, § 27, p. 218;
- Laws 1921, c. 122, § 2, p. 530;
- C.S.1922, § 3076;
- C.S.1929, § 48-153;
- Laws 1935, c. 57, § 34, p. 204;
- C.S.Supp.,1941, § 48-153;
- R.S.1943, § 48-162;
- Laws 1983, LB 18, § 5;
- Laws 1983, LB 263, § 2;
- Laws 1986, LB 811, § 93;
- Laws 1987, LB 187, § 2;
- Laws 1993, LB 121, § 284;
- Laws 1993, LB 757, § 16;
- Laws 2005, LB 13, § 18.