Yarns v. Leon Plastics, Inc.

The award of the Workers’ Compensation Court ordered the defendant-appellant employer, Leon Plastics, Inc., to pay the plaintiff-appellee employee, Jacey Yarns, permanent total disability payments of $160 per week, reasonably necessary future medical and hospital expenses, and certain other benefits not relevant to this appeal. The employer assigns as error, in summary, the compensation court’s findings that (1) Yarns’ condition is work related and (2) she is presently permanently and totally disabled. We vacate the award and remand for further proceedings.

Yarns, who has a congenital low back…