Pomerinke v. Excel Trucking Transport, Inc.

TROUT, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Industrial Commission (Commission) rating a claimant’s permanent physical impairment and disability beyond impairment. The issues on appeal are whether the Commission’s findings of fact are supported by substantial and competent evidence, whether the Commission applied the correct test for total permanent disability and whether the Commission erred by referring to the American Medical Association (AMA) guidelines. We find that substantial and competent evidence supports the Commission’s findings, the Commission correctly applied the test…