Hansen v. Jer Her Builders

SIMONETT, Justice.

The employer, Jer Her Builders, and its insurer, General Accident Group, seek review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals awarding the employee 15% permanent partial disability to the head, notwithstanding a prior award based on a settlement stipulation for 13% permanent partial disability “to the visual field or the body as a whole.” We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

Employee Charles H. Hansen, a carpenter, was struck on the left side of his face by an iron pipe on April 2, 1979, and sustained comminuted fractures of his left ma-lar bone,…