Jones v. City of Huntsville, Alabama, Inc.

BRADLEY, Judge.

The judgment rendered by the trial court awarded petitioner temporary total benefits of $6,199.16, all of her medical expenses, and an eighty percent permanent partial disability with benefits of $33.97 per week for 169 weeks. Petitioner contends that she should have been awarded benefits for a total permanent disability rather than an eighty percent permanent partial disability, and asks this court to reverse that aspect of the trial court’s judgment.

The evidence shows that petitioner at the time of trial was a sixty-four year old widow with no dependents and was employed…