Mississippi Department of Public Safety v. Pickens

BRIDGES, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. On October 26, 2000, an administrative judge, held that Troy Pickens proved that he sustained a work related injury. The administrative judge relied on the medical expert testimony of Dr. Thomas Shands and Dr. Kenneth Bennett as well as the lay testimony of Pickens and Pick-ens’s supervisor, Lt. Col. Jim Boxx. Further, the administrative judge decided that Pickens’s benefits for permanent disability should be apportioned by 50% in accordance with Mississippi Code Annotated section 71-3-7 (Rev.2000), as at least 50% of his injury was concluded to be due to…