Inland Steel Co. v. Almodovar

The full Industrial Board of Indiana awarded appellee (hereafter “plaintiff”) twenty-six weeks compensation for temporary total disability and an additional 175 weeks for thirty-five percent permanent partial impairment of the whole person for an alleged back injury which appellant (Inland) contends neither the evidence nor the facts found by the Board demonstrate is a “personal injury ... by accident arising out of, and in the course of, the employment,” as the Board held. Also, that if an award is justified, the percentage of impairment is less than that awarded. And, finally, that if the…