Estate of Thompson v. WCI Components

OPINION

REID, Chief Justice.

This workers’ compensation case presents an appeal from the trial court’s finding that the deceased employee’s estate was not entitled to recover permanent partial disability benefits from the date of the final payment of temporary total disability benefits (the date of maximum recovery) until the date of the employee’s non-work-related death. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

On September 5, 1989, the employee was injured in the course of her employment, resulting in a loss of range of motion and the amputation of the tip of her left index finger. She…