Larry Vandenberg, Respondent, vs. Swanson & Youngdale, Inc., Self-Insured/Berkley Risk Administrators Company, Relators, and St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Health System, Duluth Building Trades Health & Welfare Fund, and Hennepin Faculty Associates, Intervenors.

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STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A12-1848 Larry Vandenberg, Respondent, vs. Swanson & Youngdale, Inc., Self-Insured/Berkley Risk Administrators Company, Relators, and St. Mary s Duluth Clinic Health System, Duluth Building Trades Health & Welfare Fund, and Hennepin Faculty Associates, Intervenors. ________________________ Kay Nord Hunt, Richard L. Plagens, Lommen, Abdo, Cole, King & Stageberg, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for relators. Ronald R. Envall, LaCourse & Envall, P.A., Duluth, Minnesota, for respondent. _________________________ Considered and decided by the court without oral argument. 1 ORDER Based upon all the files, records, and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers Compensation Court of Appeals filed and served on September 18, 2012, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion. See Hoff v. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that [s]ummary affirmances have no precedential value because they do not commit the court to any particular point of view, doing no more than establishing the law of the case). Employee is awarded $1,200 in attorney fees. Dated: May 2, 2013 BY THE COURT: /s/ Wilhelmina M. Wright Associate Justice 2

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