Reggep v. Lunder Shoe Products Company

WEATHERBEE, Justice.

On appeal from a Pro Forma Decree of the Superior Court.

For several years prior to 1965 our statutes providing Workmen’s Compensation for personal injuries computed compensation for all total incapacities on the basis of Ys of the employee’s average weekly wages! 39 M.R.S.A. § 54. This included the so-called permanent total incapacities resulting from the most devastating injuries for which weekly compensation could be paid for as long as 500 weeks and the so-called presumed total incapacities resulting from less serious injuries where the law arbitrarily limited…