Bailey v. Colonial Freight Systems, Inc.

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

In this workers’ compensation appeal, the trial court awarded 65 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole and commuted the award to a lump sum. The defendant concedes the employee suffered a compensable injury and questions only the amount of the disability award and whether it should have been commuted to a lump sum. We conclude that the amount of the award is correct, but that it should be paid periodically and not in lump sum.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

The plaintiff, Donald Ray Bailey, aged 47, was, at the time of the accident, employed as a truck driver…