Williamson v. Weyerhaeuser Corp.

OPINION

STUBBLEFIELD, Judge.

In this workers’ compensation case, worker appeals the court en banc’s reduction of the lower court’s award of permanent partial disability compensation from 400 weeks to 260 weeks because worker had previously received 240 weeks of temporary total compensation. The sole issue raised by this appeal pertains to the continued existence of the 500 week limitation on combined awards of temporary and permanent partial compensation. We find that limitation to have been abolished by the 1978 amendments to the Workers’ Compensation Act and reverse the order of the court en…