Butler's Dairy v. Honeycutt

SHIVERS, Judge.

The employer/carrier in this workers’ compensation case appeal the deputy commissioner’s order awarding the claimant permanent and total disability benefits. We affirm.

Claimant injured his back in a compensa-ble accident on September 4, 1979, when he was kicked by a couple of cows while working for his employer as a dairyman. Since the date of his accident to the present, claimant has received extensive medical treatment, both physical, including two unsuccessful back operations, and psychiatric. Claimant’s treating physician since 1979 to the present, Dr. Robert Massam, opined…