Bailey v. Knox County

BROCK, Chief Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case the chancellor awarded benefits to the employee for forty percent permanent partial disability to his body as a whole resulting from an injury to his lower back suffered in the course and scope of his employment.

The defendant admits that the injury is compensable and on this appeal raises the sole issue that the evidence does not support the amount of disability awarded by the trial court. The gist of the defendant’s argument is that since the testimony of the medical expert, Dr. Martin R. Baker, Jr., was that plaintiff had sustained a…