McMahon v. Huntington

CARLTON, Acting Chief Justice.

Two substantive issues are presented to us in this workmen’s compensation case: first, did the Judge of Industrial Claims err in finding that claimant had reached maximum medical recovery; second, was the grant of compensation for nursing services proper. The Industrial Relations Commission reversed the Judge’s affirmative rulings on both issues with one member dissenting. In our judgment the reversal was in error and the Compensation Order should have been sustained.

Claimant, a 59-year old woman employed as a chambermaid, fractured her left ankle in a…