Plumley v. Kroger, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT BY CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

Over the span of several years working for Kroger, Michael R. Plumley suffered four work-related low-back injuries, and this is Plumley's appeal from the workers' compensation claim he filed for disability benefits attributable to the three most recent injuries. He argues that the Administrative Law Judge erred in awarding permanent partial disability benefits by relying upon allegedly flawed medical evidence that, among other failings, applied improperly the AMA Guides for assessing functional impairment; by finding he had three distinct…