Phillips v. Liberty Mutual

Claimant appeals an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed the order of the referee and denied claimant permanent total disability. The Board awarded claimant 80 percent loss of his right leg and 60 percent loss of his left leg. We find that claimant is permanently and totally disabled.

Claimant was 60 at the time of the hearing. He is a high school graduate and attended a business school for six months. He has been a dishwasher, cook’s helper, waiter, welder and truck driver. He is deaf in his right ear and wears a hearing aide in his left ear. Because of a previously broken…