Century Granite Co. v. McDowell

LAVENDER, Justice:

For review is trial judge’s order awarding compensation for 14 weeks total temporary disability, and 50 percent permanent partial disability to body as a whole for injury to the abdomen and a left inguinal hernia.

The issue is the right of the claimant to receive an award for permanent partial disability to the body as a whole. There is no dispute as to the accidental injury in course of covered employment. This is also true as to the occurrence of the left inguinal hernia and of the award of 14 weeks total temporary disability.

Claimant sustained this accidental injury…