Haley v. Dyersburg Fabrics, Inc.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

Appellant sustained a serious cut on the palm of his left hand in the course and scope of his employment by appellee on April 30, 1984. He was paid temporary total disability benefits for nine months, until February 1985. Most of his medical expenses during that time were also paid by the employer. There is no question of compensability.

Subsequent to the accident, however, appellant suffered severe constriction of movement of the fingers in his left hand and developed what is referred to by one of the examining physicians as a “claw” hand, so that he has little…