CARQUEST AUTO PARTS & TOOLS v. Waite

Carquest Auto Parts Tools of Montgomery, Alabama, Inc. ("Carquest"), appeals from a judgment entered by the Montgomery Circuit Court in favor of Stacy Waite in which the court found Waite to be 100 percent permanently and totally disabled and awarded her workers' compensation benefits commensurate with that finding. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Waite sustained an on-the-job injury to her back on May 24, 2000, when she pulled two brake rotors weighing between 45 and 65 pounds each off a shelf from an overhead position. Dr. Donovan Kendrick performed surgery on Waite's back on August…