Standard Fire Insurance Company v. Simon

GUITTARD, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case the principal questions are whether the claimant is entitled to recover for the nursing services of his wife and mother-in-law and whether the evidence supports the verdict of total and permanent incapacity: The trial court allowed full recovery, and we affirm.

On November 3, 1967 Richard Simon, a truck driver, was in Wheeling, West Virginia, and was covering his load with a tarpaulin when he fell off his truck and fractured his skull, scapula, wrist and five ribs. After a week in the hospital in Wheeling, his wife, a graduate nurse, took…