Cavanaugh v. Frederick Willys, Inc.

OPINION

TODD, Justice.

Employee seeks review of the decision of a divided Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals affirming and adopting the compensation judge’s findings of fact and determination that she had failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that she is permanently and totally disabled. Having decided that this determination and certain findings underlying it are manifestly contrary to the evidence, we reverse and hold that employee has proved her claim.

The legal meaning of permanent total disability is well settled. We have long held that “a person is totally disabled if…