Deschampe v. Arrowhead Tree Service

COYNE, Justice.

Certiorari was granted to review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals reversing, by panel majority, the compensation judge’s determination that the employee’s work in a laundromat for 18 hours over a 3-week period in De*901cember 1987 did not qualify him for a lump sum payment of his permanent partial disability benefits under Minn.Stat. § 176.101, subd. 3o (1984).1

On May 29, 1984, John Deschampe sustained a closed head injury as well as arm and leg injuries when he fell from a tree while working for Arrowhead Tree Service. As a result of the brain injury, the…