Adkins v. Georgia-Pacific, Corp.

In this worker’s compensation action, Teresa Ann Adkins appeals from a circuit court order reversing the full commission’s award of future medical costs for recurring ear infections resulting from an admitted injury to Adkins’s right ear. We reverse and reinstate the award of the full commission.

FACTS/PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Adkins was employed by Georgia-Pacific Corporation (“GPC”). On August 22, 1994, Adkins’s right eardrum was perforated when a nail gun discharged compressed air in close proximity to her right ear. GPC admitted Adkins suffered an *36injury to her right ear in the course of and…