Duncan v. Boeing Tennessee, Inc.

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

In this worker’s compensation appeal, the trial court awarded the employee 75 percent permanent partial disability to a scheduled member — the left leg. The defendant contends that the evidence preponderates against the verdict and that voca*417tional disability evidence is inadmissible to establish the loss of use of a scheduled member. We disagree and affirm.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

Lorena Suette Duncan, now aged 49, had an eighth-grade education at the time of her employment by the defendant, Boeing Tennessee, Inc., in 1984. Prior to her employment at Boeing, she had worked…