Mumpower v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is a workmen’s compensation appeal by claimant from a circuit court award of 40 per cent for “loss of an arm by separation” for an unscheduled back injury. The hearings officer and the Workmen’s Compensation Board had awarded 25 per cent. Claimant seeks a finding of permanent and total disability.

In 1965, when he was 60 years old, claimant sustained the injury in question when he was “Hit by log — threw back onto pile of brush injuring back.” Subsequently, he unsuccessfully tried to continue his lifelong occupations of logging and commercial deep sea fishing. Then he tried working as a…