Ball v. Daw Forest Products Co.

SCHROEDER, Justice.

Duane Ball (Ball) appeals from the Industrial Commission’s (Commission) decision that he suffered a fifty percent disability rather than a total and permanent disability. Ball also claims that the Industrial Commission made several legal and procedural errors.

I

BACKGROUND AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

At the time of the hearing, Ball was thirty-nine years old and lived in Blanchard, Idaho. Blanchard is a small town located on Highway 41 about thirty-one miles north of Post Falls, thirty-nine miles southwest of Sand-point and twelve miles south of Priest River.

In 1986 Ball began…