Paul Lane Roark v. Liberty Mutual

This is a workers' compensation action, appealed by the plaintiff below, in which the primary issue is the amount of the award
for permanent partial disability. Plaintiff also questions the court's judgment in declining to leave the decree open for
the payment of future medical expenses. Plaintiff sustained an injury to his back while working in the course and scope of his employment. Treatment of the injury
required surgery to perform a lumbar laminectomy. The chancellor found that Mr. Roark had sustained a fifteen percent (15%)
permanent partial disability to the body as a whole and awarded benefits accordingly. It is insisted the evidence preponderates
against the small award of permanent partial disability and that the trial court failed to give proper consideration to vocational
disability.