Savio House v. Dennis

PIERCE, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case, Savio House and Continental Casualty Company (petitioners) seek review of a final order of the Industrial Commission awarding claimant permanent total disability benefits. We affirm.

Claimant sustained compression fractures of her vertebrae on August 13, 1976, while working as a housekeeper at a boys’ home. Her orthopedic specialist gave her a permanent partial disability rating of 5 percent as a working unit, and in May 1978, petitioners admitted liability for 5 percent as a working unit.

On February 15, 1979, claimant filed a petition to…