Medlin v. Greenville County

Harwell, Justice:

This case is before this Court on writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. We granted the petition to review the Court of Appeals’ decision in Medlin v. Greenville County and State Workers’ Compensation Fund, --- S.C. ---, 392 S.E. (2d) 192 (Ct. App. 1990). This is a workers’ compensation case and involves the issue of whether an employee is entitled to recover additional total and permanent benefits for a successive injury to his back when the first injury resulted in a recovery for total and permanent disability. The Court of Ap peals held the employee was not entitled…