Flake v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.

This is an appeal from a decision of the workers’ compensation court, Billings, that claimant sustained a 12% permanent partial disability and awarding a lump sum payment in the amount of $2,431.20.

Virginia Flake, claimant and appellant, is a licensed practical nurse. She suffered an injury to her lower back in the course of her employment at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Billings on March 3, 1974. Prior to her injury, she was employed part-time, working an average of three eight hour days per week. The record reveals claimant worked one full forty hour week just prior to her injury.

Following the…