State Ex Rel. Chrysler v. Industrial Commission

Relator’s claim for workers’ compensation payments, as the result of a work-related injury to his low back in 1960, was allowed by the commission. At the time of his injury, relator was employed as a beer truck driver. On November 2, 1981, relator filed an application for permanent total disability compensation payments. His application was supported by reports from Robert R. Kessler, M.D., who revealed that, as a result of his examination, he believed that relator was experiencing a “persisting impairment of function rating a high degree of at least seventy (70) percent,” based upon…