Legal Opinion
Seals v. England/Corsair Upholstery Manufacturing Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 11, 1999No. 03S01-9704-CH-00044PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BIRCH, J.
In this workers’ compensation action, the employee, Linda S. Seals, filed two separate claims: one for a March 1993 back injury and a second for a July 1993 hand injury and chronic depression. Although not formally consolidated by the trial court, these claims were tried together. Regarding the first claim, the trial court awarded the employee benefits for a 25 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole as a result of the back injury. Regarding the second claim, the trial court found that the employee was permanently and totally disabled from the combination…
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- Bomely v. Mid-America Corp.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1998
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