Bartley v. Bartley Logging Co.

Littlejohn, Acting Associate Justice:

In this workers’ compensation case, the hearing commissioner held that appellant was entitled to lifetime benefits. The full commission and the circuit' court ruled that appellant was limited to 500 weeks of compensation.

*90Appellant became a paraplegic after being severely injured in a compensable logging accident on June 6,1983. At the time of the injury, S. C. Code Ann. § 42-9-10 (1976, as amended) provided that the coverage period could not exceed 500 weeks. On May 31, 1984, this statute was amended to allow paraplegics to receive workers’ compensation…