United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Morgan

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This is an appeal by the employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier testing the award of permanent partial disability benefits, and the order that the employer pay past and future medical expenses necessary to the treatment of the employee’s injury. On review, we find that the judgment of the trial court is supported by the preponderance of the evidence, and it is affirmed.

Billy Ray Morgan was employed as an automobile line mechanic by the Twin City Buick Company of Alcoa, Tennessee. On August 28, 1985, he attempted to remove the wheels from a customer’s…