Chastain v. Union News Division of the American News Co.

DREW, Justice.

The petitioner in this workmen’s compensation case, a 45-year-old restaurant hostess, controverts an order of the full commission which reversed an order awarding petitioner permanent total disability compensation and other benefits. The full commission in its order found that the award of permanent total compensation was premature and inconsistent with the deputy’s finding that “claimant is in need of psychiatric treatment of her said psychiatric disorder * * * a conversion neurosis,” although maximum recovery from the orthopedic injury has been reached. The psychiatric…