Legal Opinion
Anaya v. New Mexico Steel Erectors, Inc.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided May 5, 1980No. 12756PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EASLEY, Justice.
New Mexico Steel Erectors and its workmen’s compensation insurance carrier (Erectors) appealed to the Court of Appeals the trial court’s award of fifty per cent permanent-partial disability to Anaya. The Court of Appeals reversed. We granted certiorari and we now reverse the Court of Appeals.
We must first determine what is meant by the provision in our Workmen’s Compensation Act (§§ 52-1-1, et seq., N.M.S.A. 1978) which requires that a workman must be “unable to some percentage-extent to perform any work for which he is fitted,” (§ 52-1-25, N.M.S.A.1978) before he is…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Aranda v. Mississippi Chemical Corp.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 1979
- Herndon v. Albuquerque Public SchoolsNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1978
- Maes v. John C. Cornell, Inc.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 1974
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3Cited by40 opinions
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