Paul Lane Roark v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation action, appealed by the plaintiff below, in which the primary issue is the amount of the award for permanent partial disability. Plaintiff also questions the court’s judgment in declining to leave the decree open for the payment of future medical expenses.

Plaintiff sustained an injury to his back while working in the course and scope of his employment. Treatment of the injury required surgery to perform a lumbar lami-nectomy. The chancellor found that Mr. Roark had sustained a fifteen percent (15%) permanent partial disability to the…