Reyes v. Transportation Insurance Co.

OPINION

BUTTS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a workers’ compensation case. The Industrial Accident Board awarded Jose Reyes recovery under the Workers’ Compensation Act for injuries to both hands which he sustained while employed at a meat packing plant. In a suit to set aside the award, the jury found that the injury was a producing cause of a total and temporary loss of use of both hands, finding that the loss existed 86 weeks for each hand. The jury also found that the injury produced a par*802tial and permanent loss of use of 20% in each hand beginning December 15, 1987. The…