ITT Continental Baking Co. v. Powell

Beasley, Judge.

We granted ITT’s application for discretionary review of the trial court’s affirmance of a workers’ compensation award to claimant Powell.

Claimant’s duties required prolonged standing on a concrete floor. Because of swelling and pain in his feet, claimant consulted a podiatrist not on the employer’s list of approved physicians. When the problems worsened claimant left his employment on June 9, 1984, and had surgery on June 19. He returned to work in September, having filed a claim for medical insurance, but then at the end of November he notified ITT that he wished to file a…