Cardona v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.

STOULIG, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff, Julio Ceasar Cardona, workmen’s compensation benefits of $12.50 weekly for a period of 100 weeks for the permanent loss of a physical function that resulted from a job-connected accident. Defendants, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., the employer, and its alleged workmen’s compensation insurer, The Hartford Insurance Group, while conceding the occurrence of the accident and the residual ef*595fects to plaintiff, dispute the condition1 is compensable. They dispute that this condition is a permanent impairment of a physical function…