Flowers v. Pines Restaurant, Inc.

MURDOCK, Judge.

Pauline Flowers appeals, and The Pines Restaurant, Inc., cross-appeals, from a judgment on a workers’-compensation case purporting to award benefits for a single injury the trial court classified as both a permanent-partial disability and a permanent-total disability. This action arises under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, §§ 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, as it read before the effective date of the 1992 amendment.

Flowers was employed by The Pines as a dishwasher. She sued her employer following an accident on January 17, 1992, in which she slipped on grease, which was on the…