Coles v. Seven Eleven Stores

The insurer, American Motorists Insurance Company, appeals a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court ordering it to pay the claimant, Shirley Russo Coles, permanent total disability benefits rather than permanent partial disability benefits; setting the rate of compensation at $123.39 per week; and awarding costs, attorneys’ fees and a 20% penalty to the claimant. We affirm.

On October 10, 1981, while working as a clerk in a convenience store, the claimant fell from a ladder, struck her mid and lower back on a sink and then hit the floor on her back and left side of her head. Following an…