Lucky v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This workmen’s compensation appeal involves the single issue of the extent of claimant’s permanent disability resulting from a compensable injury received on October 30, 1973. Claimant contends that the cumulative effect of a neck injury suffered while working as a laborer for the Multnomah County Road Department and the attendant psychopathology triggered by that injury has rendered him permanently and totally disabled.1

Permanent and total disability benefits were, in fact, awarded to claimant by the Board’s referee who concluded that while the medical evidence indicated a "minimal cervical…