Crain Burton Ford Co. v. Rogers

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission holding that the appellee’s impotence was a result of a compen-sable back injury and that the surgical procedure for a prosthetic penile implantation was necessary medical treatment.

Appéllee injured his back while working for appellant and underwent surgery in 1973. He subsequently developed bladder and bowel incontinence and impotence. It was determined that he was suffering from a demyelinating disease, thought to be either multiple sclerosis, primary lateral sclerosis, or amyotrophic lateral…