Pantry Pride-Food Fair Stores, Inc. v. Backus

Opinion

BARROW, J.

These cross-appeals are from an award of compensation for permanent, total incapacity of the employee’s legs. We hold that the commission did not have to make an explicit, numerical rating of the disability for each leg where evidence of *178such a rating by a physician was presented to the commission and the commission determined that the employee was totally disabled because of the impairment she suffered in both legs. Furthermore, because the underlying purpose of the commission’s Rule 13(B)1 was served, the commission did not err in applying the rule to limit compensation to…