ITT CONTINENTAL BANKING COMPANY v. Comes

Banke, Judge.

The employee/claimant in this workers’ compensation case suffered a compensable injury on December 26, 1977, when the middle, index, and ring fingers of her left hand were severed. After receiving the maximum disability benefits to which she was entitled under former Code Ann. § 114-406 (as amended through Ga. L. 1974, pp. 1143, 1145), she sought and obtained a change of condition hearing based on pain from the original injury. Following this hearing, the administrative law judge awarded renewed benefits for total disability, based on a finding that claimant had suffered a…