Vaughn v. Shelby Williams of Tennessee, Inc.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

In this workers’ compensation action, the employer, Shelby Williams of Tennessee, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, has appealed from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Hamblen County awarding the employee, Barnett Vaughn, Plaintiff-Appellee, 80 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole as a result of a compensa-ble back injury that occurred on September 12, 1988. The trial court also awarded temporary total disability benefits from the date of the Plaintiff’s back surgery, May 8, 1989, to May 23, 1990, the day of the trial, in addition to a 25 percent bad…