Davis v. Reagan

OPINION

HOLDER, Justice.

We granted this consolidated appeal to determine whether permanent total disability can be awarded when an anatomical disability rating is less than 16.7 percent. In Seiber v. Greenbrier Industries, Inc., 906 S.W.2d 444 (Tenn.1995), this Court adopted a panel decision holding that the limits in Tenn.Code Ann. § 50-6-241 (1996 Supp.) precluded an award of total disability when the anatomical impairment was less than 16.7 percent. A later, but unpublished, workers’ compensation panel decision held that the limitations in Tenn.Code Ann. § 50-6-241(b) are not applicable to…