Potterf v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This is an appeal from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board, which modified a referee’s award of permanent total disability to an award of 60 percent unscheduled disability.

Claimant, a 49-year old 1 woman, suffered a cervical injury in 1974, while employed as a nurse’s aide. The claim was closed in late 1974 with an award of temporaty total disability only. A year later the claim was reopened, as a result of continuing difficulties. In May, 1976, she had a cervical decompressive laminectomy and foraminotomy; in October, 1976, she had another cervical operation; and in March, 1977, she…