SEALS v. ENGLAND/CORSAIR UPHOLSTERY MFG.


984 S.W.2d 912 (1999)

Linda S. SEALS, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. ENGLAND/CORSAIR UPHOLSTERY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., Defendant/Appellant, Dina Tobin, Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, Tennessee Department of Labor, Second Injury Fund, Defendant/Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

January 11, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Dunaway, LaFollette, for Appellee Seals.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Sandra E. Keith, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, for Appellee Second Injury Fund.

J. Steven Collins, John A. Willis, Knoxville, for Appellant.


OPINION

BIRCH, J.

In this workers' compensation action, the employee, Linda S. Seals, filed two separate claims: one for a March 1993 back injury and a second for a July 1993 hand injury and chronic depression. Although not formally consolidated by the trial court, these claims were tried together. Regarding the first claim, the trial court awarded the employee benefits for a 25 percent permanent partial disability to the body as a whole as a result...

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