Sapienza v. Deaconess Hospital

GRIMM, Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation case wherein the employer and insurer appeal. They raise two issues. First, that an award of 400 weeks for permanent partial disability is excessive as a matter of law because the employee returned to his former job and is working full time. We disagree, because the continued ability of an employee to work does not prevent an award of permanent partial disability so long as there is an injury that causes partial loss of bodily function which impairs *150the efficiency of the employee in the ordinary pursuits of life. Komosa v. Monsanto Chemical Co.,…