Grimshaw v. L. Peter Larson Co.

This is an appeal from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court. The court ordered that claimant’s permanent total disability benefits and permanent partial disability benefits were to be paid concurrently. The court also allowed the conversion of the permanent partial benefit to a lump sum. We reverse the order requiring the payment of concurrent benefits.

The claimant, Matthew I. Grimshaw, was injured on September 11, 1980, while in the scope and course of his employment for the L. Peter Larson Company, a self-insured employer under Plan I of the Montana Workers’ Compensation Act.…