Baird-Ray Datsun v. Butler

McCORD, Judge.

Appellants, employer/carrier, appeal from a deputy commissioner’s order awarding appellee workers’ compensation benefits based on a 50% permanent partial disability and awarding attorney’s fees. We reverse.

On March 26, 1979, appellee injured his right knee in a work-related accident while employed by appellant Baird-Ray Datsun as an auto body repairman. Appellee had to undergo knee surgery to repair a tear in the medial meniscus. He testified that, during his hospitalization for that surgery, he began to suffer low back pain. His treating physician attributed the back pain to a…