Antwi v. C-E Industrial Group

Swinehart, J.:

This is an appeal of a workmen’s compensation award rendered by the district court of Dickinson County in favor of the claimant, Ebenezer Antwi, against the respondent, self-insurer C-E Industrial Group and/or Combustion Engineering, Inc. Claimant was awarded 141 weeks of temporary total disability and 274 weeks of compensation for a 12%% permanent partial general disability.

The claimant raises the following issues for our review. (1) Whether the district court erred by construing K.S.A. 1979 Supp. 44-510g, the vocational rehabilitation statute of the Workmen’s Compensation Act,…