Hobbs v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is an appeal by the State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) from a judgment of the circuit court reversing the determination and award of partial disability by the Workmen’s Compensation Board and the hearing officer, and awarding claimant permanent total disability.

On appeal SAIF asserts that the facts do not support a finding of total disability and urges that we reinstate the award of the hearing officer and Board, which awarded claimant 80 degrees unscheduled low back disability.

The claimant was employed as a school cook. On May 11, 1971, while carrying an armload of boxes to a trash…