Howard P. Foley Co. v. Industrial Commission

KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge.

This is a special action review of an Industrial Commission award for permanent total disability. Only one legal issue is presented: whether under the statutes applicable to this 1971 industrial injury, after payment of the statutory maximum one hundred months of temporary total disability benefits, the disability status automatically changes as a matter of law to permanent total disability even though the condition is not yet medically stationary? The question is significant because if the status changed to permanent total disability the State Compensation Fund, as…