Blake v. Tomes

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case in which plaintiff slipped on an icy sidewalk while in the performance of his duties and injured his neck, back and shoulder. The chancellor awarded temporary total disability, medical expense and forty percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole. Defendant insists on appeal that there was no material evidence to support the award of forty percent permanent partial disability and no material evidence to support the chancellor’s finding that plaintiff’s average weekly wage was the federal minimum wage rate for a forty…