Fowler v. Consolidated Aluminum Corp.

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case the only issue presented on appeal is whether or not the trial court erred in commuting to a lump sum his award to the employee of benefits for an 85% permanent partial disability to the body as a whole, resulting from an injury to the employee’s back which arose out of and in the course of his employment.

The final decree of the trial court provides for the commutation of the plaintiff’s benefits to a lump sum, as follows:

“The court finds that a lump sum award in this case is in the manifest best interest of the plaintiff-employee…