Saveway Barber & Beauty Supplies v. Gulyas

WIGGINTON, Judge.

The carrier appeals a workers’ compensation order: finding claimant had sustained a 5% “permanent partial disability”; excusing the hospital and doctors from Chapter 440 reporting requirements; making the carrier responsible for the payment of hospital, doctor bills and a fee for claimant’s attorney; but failing to rule on the issues of wage loss and permanent total disability.

Gulyas, while performing his duties as a maintenance supervisor on January 8, 1980, suffered shortness of breath, chest pains, and a choking sensation. He was hospitalized and diagnosed as having…