Yocom v. Tri-County Sanitation Service, Inc.

VANCE, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Knox Circuit Court which awards compensation to the appellee, Hazel Thomas, hereinafter referred to as claimant, for total disability for so long as the disability continues (within statutory limits) and which apportions one-hundred percent of the liability to the Special Fund upon the theory that the entire disability was caused by the arousal of a preexisting dormant non-disabling disease condition into disabling reality.

The claimant sustained a back injury during the course of her employment as a result of a motor-vehicle…