Paramount Foods, Inc. v. Burkhardt

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from an opinion of the Court of Appeals which reversed a judgment of the circuit court affirming the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board not to award permanent partial total disability benefits to Burkhardt.

The questions presented are whether the Court of Appeals applied the proper standard of review and whether the Court of Appeals invaded the province of the Workers’ Compensation Board as to fact finding.

Burkhardt, age 63 and a 35-year employee at the time of the accident, fell into a large pickle tank and dislocated his right shoulder. After a…